Ernest L. Jones Early Aviation Scrapbook, vol. 1 of 7 (A-B)

Summary

Ernest L. Jones transformed his early interest in aeronautics into a lifelong career devoted to civil and military aviation. Jones edited and published several aeronautical magazines, promoted and improved air transportation operations, and served in military air services during both world wars. Jones's scrapbooks document the early development of aviation in the United States.

Ernest L. Jones transformed his early interest in aeronautics into a lifelong career devoted to civil and military aviation. Jones edited and published several aeronautical magazines, promoted and improved air transportation operations, and served in military air services during both world wars. Jones's scrapbooks document the early development of aviation in the United States.

Artifact

Scrapbook

Subject Date

1863-1917

Keywords

United States, New York, Niagara 

United States, New York, Hammondsport 

United States, New York, Rheims 

United Kingdom, England 

United States, Missouri, St. Louis 

Canada, Nova Scotia, Baddeck 

United States, Massachusetts, Boston 

United States, California, Los Angeles 

United States, New York, Garden City 

United States, New Jersey, Perth Amboy 

United States, New York, New York 

United States, Virginia, Fort Myer 

United States, Kansas, Fort Leavenworth 

United States, New York, Elmont 

Scrapbooks 

Photograph albums 

Albums (Books) 

Air pilots 

Aircraft 

Airplanes 

Airships 

Aviation 

Balloons (Aircraft) 

Curtiss aircraft 

Engines (Power producing equipment) 

Gliders (Aircraft) 

Kites (Equipment) 

Seaplanes 

Selfridge, Thomas E., 1882-1908 

Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922 

Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 1878-1930 

Atwater, Lillian Janeway Platt 

Baldwin, Thomas S. (Thomas Scott), 1854-1923 

Forbes, Arthur Holland, 1863-1927 

Whitehouse, William E., 1892-1970 

Stevens, A. Leo (Albert Leo), 1877-1944 

McCurdy, John A. D., 1886-1961 

Alexander, Patrick Young, 1867-1943 

Argyll, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of, 1845-1914 

Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912 

Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 

Wright Brothers 

Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950 

Milling, Thomas DeWitt, 1887-1960 

Beachey, Lincoln, 1887-1915 

Aerial Experiment Association 

Atlantic Aircraft Corporation 

United States. Army. Signal Corps 

United States. Army. Air Service 

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

38.560.3.1

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ernest L. Jones.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

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