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Collector:

Harry A. Beatty  Search this

Preparation:

Skin

Skull

Sex:

Female

Place:

Virgin Islands (U.S.), North America

Collection Date:

8 Jul 1942

Taxonomy:

Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Eutheria, Artiodactyla, Cervidae, Capreolinae

Published Name:

Odocoileus virginianus

Accession Number:

164450

Other Numbers:

Mammals Field Number : 4

USNM Number:

270929

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Vertebrate Zoology

Mammals

Data Source:

NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals Division

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3bba2feb7-a40e-4822-841a-3a4e3512b451

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhvz_7293979

Collector:

Harry A. Beatty  Search this

Preparation:

Skin

Skull

Sex:

Female

Place:

Virgin Islands (U.S.), North America

Collection Date:

8 Jul 1942

Taxonomy:

Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Eutheria, Artiodactyla, Cervidae, Capreolinae

Published Name:

Odocoileus virginianus

Accession Number:

164450

Other Numbers:

Mammals Field Number : 6

USNM Number:

270930

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Vertebrate Zoology

Mammals

Data Source:

NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals Division

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/38f3d6b81-31f2-4919-a23c-ae7c710e76e6

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhvz_7293980

Collector:

United States Fish Commission  Search this

Ocean/Sea/Gulf:

North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea  Search this

Vessel:

Albatross R/V  Search this

Preparation:

Alcohol (Ethanol)

Sex:

female

Place:

St. Thomas Island, Virgin Islands of the United States, North Atlantic Ocean

Collection Date:

17 Jan 1884 to 24 Jan 1884

Published Name:

Callinectes marginatus (Milne-Edwards, 1861)

USNM Number:

7648

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Invertebrate Zoology

Arthropoda

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3e9b112fa-59b8-4573-80e8-ae4e3902a8cd

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_12447426

Collector:

United States Fish Commission  Search this

Ocean/Sea/Gulf:

North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea  Search this

Vessel:

Albatross R/V  Search this

Preparation:

Alcohol (Ethanol)

Sex:

male

Stage:

juvenile

Place:

St. Thomas Island, Virgin Islands of the United States, North Atlantic Ocean

Collection Date:

17 Jan 1884 to 24 Jan 1884

Published Name:

Callinectes ornatus Ordway, 1863

USNM Number:

18546

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Invertebrate Zoology

Arthropoda

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3428ce803-b9ef-4598-9c11-61e75abb3d79

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_12461607

Collector:

United States Fish Commission  Search this

Ocean/Sea/Gulf:

North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea  Search this

Vessel:

Albatross R/V  Search this

Preparation:

Alcohol (Ethanol)

Sex:

female

Place:

St. Thomas Island, Virgin Islands of the United States, North Atlantic Ocean

Collection Date:

17 Jan 1884 to 24 Jan 1884

Published Name:

Portunus (Portunus) sayi (Gibbes, 1850)

USNM Number:

18548

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Invertebrate Zoology

Arthropoda

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3e3eea61b-bb88-453d-91cc-da0a319e6950

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_12702291

Collector:

United States Fish Commission  Search this

Ocean/Sea/Gulf:

North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea  Search this

Vessel:

Albatross R/V  Search this

Preparation:

Alcohol (Ethanol)

Sex:

female

Place:

St. Thomas Island, Virgin Islands of the United States, North Atlantic Ocean

Collection Date:

17 Jan 1884 to 24 Jan 1884

Published Name:

Portunus (Achelous) sebae (Milne Edwards, 1834)

USNM Number:

7836

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Invertebrate Zoology

Arthropoda

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/31c96bb65-f870-4cd0-badf-e89156aef94c

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_12705571

Collector:

United States Fish Commission  Search this

Ocean/Sea/Gulf:

North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea  Search this

Vessel:

Albatross R/V  Search this

Preparation:

Alcohol (Ethanol)

Stage:

juvenile

Place:

St. Thomas Island, Virgin Islands of the United States, North Atlantic Ocean

Collection Date:

17 Jan 1884 to 24 Jan 1884

Published Name:

Cronius tumidulus (Stimpson, 1871)

USNM Number:

18570

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Invertebrate Zoology

Arthropoda

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/31fb88381-0d21-440a-a477-dc177d91bbf1

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_12706652

Collector:

United States Fish Commission  Search this

Ocean/Sea/Gulf:

North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea  Search this

Vessel:

Albatross R/V  Search this

Preparation:

Alcohol (Ethanol)

Sex:

female

Place:

St. Thomas Island, Virgin Islands of the United States, North Atlantic Ocean

Collection Date:

17 Jan 1884 to 24 Jan 1884

Published Name:

Portunus (Achelous) spinimanus Latreille, 1819

USNM Number:

7649

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Invertebrate Zoology

Arthropoda

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/365976490-7473-476d-a5c7-f2d5a98eeb8b

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_12722070

Collector:

United States Fish Commission  Search this

Ocean/Sea/Gulf:

North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea  Search this

Vessel:

Albatross R/V  Search this

Preparation:

Alcohol (Ethanol)

Stage:

juvenile

Place:

St. Thomas Island, Virgin Islands of the United States, North Atlantic Ocean

Collection Date:

17 Jan 1884 to 24 Jan 1884

Published Name:

Portunus (Achelous) ordwayi (Stimpson, 1860)

USNM Number:

18565

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Invertebrate Zoology

Arthropoda

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/388c112e0-4277-40f2-a782-5f30082db034

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_12877555

Collector:

United States Fish Commission  Search this

Ocean/Sea/Gulf:

North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea  Search this

Vessel:

Albatross R/V  Search this

Depth (m):

0 - 0

Preparation:

Alcohol (Ethanol)

Place:

St. Thomas Island, Virgin Islands of the United States, North Atlantic Ocean

Collection Date:

17 Jan 1884 to 24 Jan 1884

Published Name:

Moreiradromia antillensis (Stimpson, 1858)

USNM Number:

7652

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Invertebrate Zoology

Arthropoda

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/32854db86-864f-4456-850b-7c0298d55bf4

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_13252843

Collector:

United States Fish Commission  Search this

Ocean/Sea/Gulf:

North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea  Search this

Vessel:

Albatross R/V  Search this

Preparation:

Alcohol (Ethanol)

Place:

St. Thomas Island, Virgin Islands of the United States, North Atlantic Ocean

Collection Date:

17 Jan 1884 to 24 Jan 1884

Published Name:

Moreiradromia antillensis (Stimpson, 1858)

USNM Number:

8931

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Invertebrate Zoology

Arthropoda

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3aa64aaf5-0bc9-40f9-83e5-79ea616b3a8c

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_13252844

Collector:

United States Fish Commission  Search this

Ocean/Sea/Gulf:

North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea  Search this

Vessel:

Albatross R/V  Search this

Depth (m):

0 - 0

Preparation:

Alcohol (Ethanol)

Sex:

female

Stage:

ovigerous

Place:

St. Thomas Island, Virgin Islands of the United States, North Atlantic Ocean

Collection Date:

17 Jan 1884 to 24 Jan 1884

Published Name:

Tumidotheres maculatus (Rathbun, 1818)

USNM Number:

7666

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Invertebrate Zoology

Arthropoda

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3a034ffc8-353a-423f-913e-a0558e70de5a

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_13347288

Collector:

United States Fish Commission  Search this

Ocean/Sea/Gulf:

North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea  Search this

Vessel:

Albatross R/V  Search this

Depth (m):

0 - 0

Preparation:

Alcohol (Ethanol)

Sex:

female

male

Place:

St. Thomas Island, Virgin Islands of the United States, North Atlantic Ocean

Collection Date:

17 Jan 1884 to 24 Jan 1884

Published Name:

Domecia acanthophora (Desbonne in Desbonne & Schramm, 1867)

USNM Number:

18042

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Invertebrate Zoology

Arthropoda

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3b7624419-23a0-4059-ae0f-cca868eefa06

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_13562146

Expedition:

John Q. & Paul R. Burch Collection  Search this

Ocean/Sea/Gulf:

North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea  Search this

Preparation:

Dry

Place:

St. Thomas Island, Virgin Islands of the United States, North Atlantic Ocean

Published Name:

Dolabrifera dolabrifera (Rang, 1828)

Other Numbers:

Sort Order : MK-R21-C103-138

erroneously catalog as : 603540

USNM Number:

603542

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Invertebrate Zoology

Mollusca

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3b2059c1f-271b-4a48-a423-72e03922743c

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_12301832

Creator:

Smithsonian Channel  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2016-10-28T22:01:54.000Z

YouTube Category:

Entertainment  Search this

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Data Source:

Smithsonian Channel

YouTube Channel:

smithsonianchannel

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_14vqQy-PP2Y

Creator:

Smithsonian Channel  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2016-04-22T20:20:33.000Z

YouTube Category:

Entertainment  Search this

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smithsonianchannel

Data Source:

Smithsonian Channel

YouTube Channel:

smithsonianchannel

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_PmZovIMD-Is

Creator:

Smithsonian Channel  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2016-10-28T21:57:00.000Z

YouTube Category:

Entertainment  Search this

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smithsonianchannel

Data Source:

Smithsonian Channel

YouTube Channel:

smithsonianchannel

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_Z6LdDBnnURk

Creator:

Smithsonian Channel  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2016-04-22T20:20:13.000Z

YouTube Category:

Entertainment  Search this

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smithsonianchannel

Data Source:

Smithsonian Channel

YouTube Channel:

smithsonianchannel

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_rxTXCU2n-lc

Creator:

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2016-02-02T16:59:26.000Z

YouTube Category:

Music  Search this

Topic:

Cultural property  Search this

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Data Source:

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

YouTube Channel:

smithsonianfolkways

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_yq5ZkT3U78o

Creator:

Rowe, Basil Lee  Search this

Names:

Pan American World Airways, Inc.  Search this

West Indian Aerial Express  Search this

Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974  Search this

Rowe, Basil Lee  Search this

Extent:

5.35 Cubic feet (5 document boxes, 4 flat boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Logs (records)

Scrapbooks

Publications

Date:

1917-1973

bulk 1930-1968

Summary:

Basil Lee Rowe (1896-1973) enjoyed a long and successful career in aviation, initially as a military exhibition pilot, barnstormer, air racer, charter operator, flight instructor, aircraft salesman, and rumrunner, before moving to the West Indies to start an airline, the short-lived West Indian Aerial Express, bought out by Pan American Airways in 1928. Rowe became a pioneering senior pilot for Pan Am, flying with them for 28 years before his retirement in 1956. This collection includes scrapbooks, photo albums, memorabilia, and first day covers, in addition to the draft manuscript for Rowe's 1956 autobiography, Under My Wings.

Scope and Contents:

The collection consists of Rowe's pilot's log books covering his career from 1927 to 1956, assorted periodicals, cartoons featuring Rowe, scrapbooks and photo albums assembled by Rowe (featuring newspaper clippings, photographs, and ephemera), several draft manuscripts of Rowe's 1956 autobiography Under My Wings, and first day air mail postal covers collected by Rowe.

Arrangement:

Materials in this collection are grouped into series by format. See individual series Scope and Content notes for details on arrangement within that series. Note that with the exception of the chronologically arranged flight log books, Rowe did not appear to organize his materials in any particular order.

Biographical / Historical:

Basil Lee Rowe, born February 10, 1896, grew up in the small town of Shandaken, New York, in the Catskill Mountains. He began his flying career in 1914 as an apprentice to aviator Turk Adams after seeing Adams fly at a local county fair. Impatient to become a military pilot, Rowe arranged to join the Royal Canadian Air Force, but was sidelined by a ruptured appendix before he could get to Canada. By the time Rowe had recovered, the United States had entered World War I and Rowe was able to join the Aviation Section of the U. S. Army Signal Corps; he was sent to Texas. During the Third Liberty Loan drive, Rowe was assigned to a group of fliers who were to give exhibition flights; after his discharge, he used his savings to buy a used Avro biplane and barnstormed around the East Central United States, using Hadley Field (New Brunswick, New Jersey) as his home field. Rowe soon bought a second aircraft, hired pilot William S. "Bill" Wade, and moved his base of operations to the Aeromarine Base at Keyport, near Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Rowe prospered through the early 1920s, and his troupe the "Rowe Fliers" (including at various times wingwalkers Bill Stacy and Marguerite L. "Peggy" Roome) toured the eastern US giving exhibition flights and passenger rides. In the winter, Rowe moved his operation to Florida, and, with a rebuilt Curtiss Seagull, ferried passengers eager to escape Prohibition from Miami to Nassau, Bahamas--with a bit of rumrunning on the side. Back in New Jersey, Rowe formed the Chamberlin-Rowe Aircraft Corporation with fellow aviator Clarence Chamberlin to buy and resell Army surplus aircraft; the short-lived business went bust in 1924 when the government finished selling off its aircraft. Rowe, a talented racing pilot, kept busy from 1924 through 1926 on the racing circuit, winning numerous prizes.

By the end of 1926, at the age of thirty, Rowe felt that he had reached a turning point in his life. Dismayed by the increase in US government regulation of aviation, Rowe moved his operations to the West Indies, settling in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. With Bill Wade, Rowe rapidly established a business flying charters around the country, with flights to neighboring Haiti and Puerto Rico. In June 1927, with financial backing provided by sugar industry businessmen and the government of the Dominican Republic, Rowe founded West Indian Aerial Express (abbreviated variously as WIAE or WIAX) to provide airline service between Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico, hoping to be well positioned to bid on future US foreign air mail routes. With this in mind, Rowe returned to the Unites States and purchased a Fairchild FC-2W floatplane (christened "La Niña") and a larger Keystone K-47 Pathfinder trimotor (the former "American Legion," r/n NX179, rebuilt by the Keystone factory following a crash in April 1927 and rechristened as "Santa Maria"). To his dismay, Rowe was forced to acquired a US transport pilot license in order to be allowed to fly the "Santa Maria" back to Santo Domingo; he hired Canadian pilot Cy Caldwell to ferry "La Niña." On the way south in mid October 1927, Rowe found himself and his two aircraft in Florida just as Pan American Airways (PAA), which had been successful in obtaining a temporary contract to deliver mail from the US to Cuba, found itself without any aircraft able to fly out of their Key West, Florida, field to fulfill the contract before it expired. PAA struck a deal with Rowe to lease "La Niña" (piloted by Caldwell) to fly the first Pan American Airways flight on October 19, 1927.

With its two new aircraft, West Indian Aerial Express started regularly scheduled twice-weekly flights on December 1, 1927, between Cuba, Haiti, Santo Domingo, and Puerto Rico, later extending the routes to St. Thomas and St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands. On June 30, 1928, WIAX filed a bid with the US government for air mail service on the route from Key West to Puerto Rico, but was outmanuevered by the more politically-savvy Pan American Airways which won the contract. A final crippling blow was dealt to WIAX in September 1928 when a severe hurricane hit their base in San Juan, Puerto Rico, destroying "La Niña" and two older Waco biplanes. Rowe made his last flight in the "Santa Maria" on September 20, 1928, before turning the aircraft over to Pan American. On October 16, 1928, PAA purchased WIAX, with Rowe becoming PAA's senior pilot.

During his first ten years with Pan Am, Rowe flew a record number of hours and surveyed most of the new air routes through the Caribbean to Central and South America, several times flying with Charles Lindbergh. When the US entered World War II, Rowe was assigned to Pan Am's Africa and Orient Division to serve with the US Army Air Forces Air Transport Command on their supply route across the South Atlantic and Africa to India and China (the "Cannonball Run"). His wife, Florence May Sharp, whom Rowe had married in 1930, served as an aircraft spotter during the war. During the Korean Conflict, Rowe was once again pressed into service, and was transferred to Pan Am's Pacific Division to fly transpacific supply routes and medical evacuation flights. May's early death in 1943 left Rowe a widower at his retirement from Pan Am in 1956. At their Coral Gables, Florida, home he wrote his autobiography, Under My Wings (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., New York, 1956) and remained active as a tennis instructor until his death on October 28, 1973.

Related Materials:

See related collection Basil Lee Rowe First Day Air Mail Covers, NASM.XXXX.0487.

Basil Lee Rowe air racing medals in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum collection:

Medal, 1926 National Air Races [Winner, Relay Race], A19690242000.

Medal, 1926 National Air Races [Winner, Relay Race], A19690243000.

Medal, Aviation [Dayton Air Race], A19690244000.

Medal, Third Annual Dayton Air Race Winner, A19690245000.

Medal, 1926 National Air Races [2nd Place, Free-For-All Race, 510 cu. in. Class], A19690246000.

Medal, 1926 National Air Races [Winner, First Elimination, 500 cu. in. Class], A19690247000.

Basil Lee Rowe air racing trophies in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum collection:

Trophy, Allen W. Hinkle, Basil L. Rowe, A19690238000 [Allen W. Hinkle Trophy for Two, Three, and Four Place Airplanes, 1924]

Trophy, Glenn H. Curtiss, Basil L. Rowe, A19690239000 [The Glenn H. Curtiss Trophy for Two Seater Low Horsepower Airplane, National Air Races, Mitchel Field L. I., 1925]

Plaque, B.B.T. Corporation, National Air Races 1926, A19690240000 [B.B.T. Corporation of America Relay Race for Commercial Planes won by Basil L. Rowe, Charles S. Jones, A. H. Kreider]

Plaque, 1926 National Air Races, Benjamin Franklin Trophy, A19690241000 [Benjamin Franklin Trophy donated by Joseph A. Steinmetz, Relay Race for Commercial Planes won by Basil L. Rowe, Charles S. Jones, A. H. Kreider]

Provenance:

Basil Lee Rowe, gift, 1969; United States Air Force Museum, transfer, 1973; NASM.XXXX.0019

Restrictions:

No restrictions on access

Rights:

Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests

Topic:

Aeronautics  Search this

Aeronautics, Commercial  Search this

Aeronautics, Military  Search this

Aeronautics -- Exhibitions  Search this

Aeronautics -- Competitions  Search this

Air pilots  Search this

World War, 1914-1918  Search this

World War, 1939-1945  Search this

Works of art  Search this

Periodicals  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Logs (records)

Scrapbooks

Publications

Citation:

Basil Lee Rowe Collection, Acc. NASM.XXXX.0019, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NASM.XXXX.0019

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Basil Lee Rowe Collection

Archival Repository:

National Air and Space Museum Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg2c0b71733-3bcc-46b0-97a0-8e876ec77ef4

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nasm-xxxx-0019