Erik Hildes-Heim Collection History of Aviation Collection
Box 1
1 Miscellaneous articles, correspondence and newspapers
2 Personal papers, correspondence
3 Lecture: Airplane Inspection and blueprints from Standard Aero Corporation
4 Propaganda material
5 Rockets, parachutes, flying ships, helicopters
6 Standard Aero Corporation 1918
7 LePere Planes
8 Blueprints of Otto Lillienthal’s engine 1893
9 World War I material
10 Wright Brothers: French newspaper clippings
11 Correspondence: Business, Airmail
12 Correspondence: Business
Box 2
Glass slides
Box 3
1 Aircraft engines/Construction of Aircraft
2 Airmail: Clippings
3 Airmail Pamphlets, sheets
4 Airmail Pamphlets, sheets
5 Aviation clippings
6 Aviation history
7 Avionics/Aeronautics
8 Correspondence, Memorandum: Chronology of St. Petersburg Airboat Line “St. Petersburg Times” 1953
9 Brochure: Aeronautics, N.A.C.A. Bibliography of Aeronautics 1920-21
10 Certificate: New York Aero Club, Misc. Advertising
11 The Smithsonian Institution presentation of the Wright Brothers of 1903, Early Birds brochures and Presentations
12 Famous Airmen and Air women pioneers, Newspaper clippings
13 Helicopter plans
14 Lecture on Aerostation
15 Lighter-Than-Air newspaper clippings
16 Lighter-Than-Air Pamphlets, articles
17 Articles: Lindbergh Medals
18 Miscellaneous collection of information on airmen, flights in World War I
19 Brochures and miscellaneous papers
Box 4
Photographs:
Pre WWI Germany, Bird/Airplane
Between wars biplanes
Germany WWII pilot, Stephan Petrocry and Nazi plane
Early USN amphibious biplane
Correspondence Expediee par Ballon
Rockets 1935,62
Zeppelin R.I. Balloon
Curtiss Aviation School, N. Island, CA 1912
Stupar, one of a kind, made at Cicero Flying Field in Chicago 1912-14
Avro 504
Aircraft: Idropasseggeri M.18 1920
Benoist’s Airplane Factory, St. Louis, MO 1912-14
Le Lt. de Sausean Paris a Biscarosse 1937-38
Clara Adams and Amelia Earhart 1929
Postcards and prints – Lighter-Than-Air
2 Cancelled postcards: Schwab Uberlandversand 1966
Postcard photos: Luftschiff LZ 127, Graf Zeppelin
Farnum Fish, one of the first Air Mail Pilots 1912 San Diego
Leblanc, France, Belirot Fops, Gordon Bennett 1911
Dahinkri SL 21 1917
Turkish pilot, Hmael, in DW2
Lincoln Beachy at Mile Track Davenport, Iowa 1914
O.A. Solbrig, Davenport, Iowa
Erik Hildesheim 1963
Postcards: Aviation related
Postcards: Schwarz Aluminum Dirigible, before 1897 and after wreck in Germany
Bleriot Monoplane 1910
Dornier “Dragon Fly”
First passenger-carrying biplane to fly at Lock Haven, 1912 PA.
Bellance WB2
Bristol Sycamore A20
Curtiss JN-4 and Bears
Christmas bullet, flexible wing, strutless biplane
Cal P. Rogers 1911
Thulin K
Fokker Factory, Germany in WWI
SSW-Flugzeug R VIII 1918 Negatives of Pre WWI Aircraft von richthofen’s Jasta II11917 and Alfred Friedrich
Biplane from the period after the war
Aviators: Read and Hinton
Aviators: Harvey Crawford and Henry Keckler
Siemens Schuckert R2, WWI
Correspondence: Postcard and announcement
LaBaronnne de Laroche, the only licensed woman aviator
George Exel in the Exel Helicopter
“Curtiss Pusher”, Lincoln Beachey’s plane and Curtiss Directors and Exec. at Garden City Plant
Miss Katherine Stinson, Bud Mears, and Lincoln Beachey 1900’s
Thomas McGoey, Aviator in Vickell plane purchased from 1911 Charles Willard
French aviators, Coloraire and Tarascon prepare for 3,000 mile transatlantic flight
Photographs – all unidentified, pilots and aircraft 1911-18
Aviator: R. Yanisch
Aviators: George P. and James R. Mills 1914-18
Assembling Beech Pusher and photo of QBs
Advertisement for aviation meet, Interlaken Field 1910 and other memorabilia regarding aviation
DH-4 in World War I used for bombing and photo of American Squad
World War I: Staaken DGO-1 bomber and Manfred 1917 Richtohofen about to test hop a Pfalz DR-1 triplane
German aviators and planes 1915
Staaken R VI aeroplane
American pilots with captured Fokker D-VII in France 1918
French Pre-WWI biplanes, Revue De l’Escadrille
Pre World War I biplanes
World War I biplanes
Pamphlets on Major Raoul Lufbery
WWI German aviators, planes
“Falstaff” first beer delivered by aeroplane
Santos Dumont, Brazilian aeronaut and inventor of dirigibles
Santos Dumont’s “Demoiselle”, Louis Bleriot’s Canard 1911,15
Famous People (Kings) 1914
Early aviators 1914-18
Early biplanes 1911,12
Fokkers F-2, F-3, F-7A, F-7B, F-8, F-10, F-12, F-18, F-20, F-22, F-36
Fokkers
Early Aircraft, Heinrich Bomber 1915
Early crashes 1914-18
Bleriot with J. Vedrines as aviator
Unrelated aviation events (all unrelated)
Germany Luftschiffhalle under construction 1911
Friesley Falcon 1921
Autogiro helicopter
Balloons 1800s
Dirigibles: United States, England, and Italy
Route of C.P. Rogers in his Vin Fiz World’s Record Flight from Coast to Coast
Morris Farman with Aviator Grahme, Boston- 1910 Harvard Aviation Meet
Marten biplane “The Great Lakes Tourer” 1913
Wright Martin Trainer – Early Paratroop Development Severinsens H.C. Monoplane
Early Aviators 1900s
Seaplane arrival at Hammersmith Airport on Building Landing
Vedrines of France (pro-aviation) Limaux Election Sir Hubert Wilkins, leader Polar Sub Expedition 1931
Box 5
1 Early Planes
2 Early planes, unidentified
3 Bleriot prototype, aviators, Korn Brothers with their Benoit Tractor, Bill Bleakley, Benoist
4 Benoist Flying Boat and miscellaneous photos
5 Early Birds in checkered hats
6 Bleriot Monoplane, Breguet XIX, Caproni, Siemans Schuckert D-IV, Boeing FB-5 packard engine
7 Fokker F VIII, Bleriot XI Monoplane, Misc. assortment of aviation postcards
8 Stuntman, Omar Locklear, various aviation photos
9 Unidentifed aviation photographs 1900s
10 Milwaukee’s Golden Anniversary of Flight, Wright Memorial, including Early Birds, Vin Fiz (a 2 passenger Wright Plane)
11 Curtiss JN4D, Curtiss Model D, “Sweetheart” 1912 Flying Jenny, Euler Triplane (pre-war), H.H. Ford’s 1901 Locomobile Steam Runabout, “Shaft-Driven Twin-Propeller Flying Boat”, Cole Flyer flown by R.G. Fowler, Start of the European Circuit Race, Deperdussins
12 Wright Brothers Plane, Bleriot flown by L.L. Walker, Euler Taube, Roland D VI, Aerocar, Beachey, Henry Farman Bi-plane, Observation Lindenburg, Beachey #2, Pomilio Scout, Gotha LD-2, Prof. Ernest Horvath’s first monoplane 1910
13 Miscellaneous later model airplanes
14 Miscellaneous aviators and inventors
15 Miscellaneous aviators
16 Miscellaneous aviators
17 Women aviators
18 Miscellaneous classic automobiles 1900s
Box 6
1 Hildes-Heim Collection Summary
2 Hildes-Heim Book Collection
3 Hildes-Heim Collection
4 Hildes-Heim Contract for sale of Aviation Collection
5 Hildes-Heim Bill of Sale
6 Hildes-Heim Contract of Sale
Box 7
1 Aviation Sheets, Magazine articles, “The Mentor” 1914
2 Business correspondence: Aeronautic Alumni Association Aero Club of Long Island
3 Ikarus Volatus in Nummis
4 Airmail correspondence
5 Airmail correspondence
6 Airmail correspondence
7 Airmail correspondence
8 Personal correspondence
9 Magazine articles, Miscellaneous aviation articles
10 Airmail articles
Box 8
1-3 Aviation Book lists and catalogues miscellaneous Airmail, Aircraft catalogues
Box 9
1-2 Personal correspondence
3 Newspaper clippings
4 Uncancelled stamps
5 Photos and miscellaneous items
6 Book lists and catalogues
7 Lighter-Than-Air pamphlets and articles
8 Hildes-Heim book collection
9 Personal correspondence regarding sale of collection Book lists
Box 10
Midsize newspaper clippings
Miscellaneous photographs of airmail covers
Airmail Covers
Autographed notes, letters, photographs
Large loose airmail stamps
12 Witteman Illustrations
Loose stamps
Book: Flying History Philatelically Speaking
Miscellaneous clippings, cards, stamps
62 photographs of WWII airplanes
Aircraft recognition pamphlets
3 packages of recognition cards
1 box of photographs of various foreign medals
Box 11
1 Lighter-Than-Air photographs of balloons
2 Lighter-Than-Air photographs , Prints
3 Lighter-Than-Air Zeppelins, Dirigibles
4 Lighter-Than-Air balloonists
5 Airmail photographs
6 Airmail covers
7 Airmail photographs: Hans Grade
8 Helicopters, Early planes
9 Helicopters, Photographs
10 Glenn Curtiss Aeroplane, Corporation: Photographs
11 Famous Plane Designers
12 Gordon Bennett 1911
13 Glenn Martin photographs
14 Sea Planes photographs
15 Sea Planes photographs
16 Seaplanes, ships, carriers: Photographs
17 Adams-Farwell Aeronautic Motor
18 Aviation sheet music
19 Burden library gift to Harvard
20 Catalogues
21 Engine Blueprint: J.J. Boland\
22 Library Collections
23 Snadecki Engine
24 A True History of the Daring Aeronaut by Thomas Baldwin
25 Wright Brothers
Box 12
Glass slides
Box 13
Glass slides
Box 14
1 Posthumous Work of Louis Mouillard
2 Bibliography of Louis Pierre Mouillard
3-4 La Memoire de Louis Pierre Mouillard
Boxes 15, 16, 17
3 Boxes of glass slides
Box 18
1 Philately, First Day Cover
2 Post cards: Essay of Wilbur Wright’s trial in the Conquest of the Air
3 The achievements of the Zeppelins
4 Monograph: Mosneron, J. Le Vallon Aerien 1810
5 Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei: Graf Zeppelin souvenir
6 Brochure: Curtiss Flying Service
7 Monograph: Meerwein, Charles F., L’Art de Voler 1785
8 Autographs
9 Monograph: Lebaut, Rene 1911
10 Brochure: Louis Godard Cingenieur – Aeronaute 1914
11 Monograph: An Asylum for Fugitive Pieces in Prose 1784 and verse
12 Monograph: Mortane, Jacques, Les Dirigeabiles Tragique1938
13 Drama: Peter Wilins or the Flying Islanders
14 W.E. Hughes, Chronicles of Icarus 1930
15 Mallet, Francois, Les Aeronautes Les Colombo Philes 1909
16 Lilienthal, Practical Experiments in Soaring 1893
17 Monograph: Jaudon, Daniel, A Short System of Polite 1806 Learning Being an Epitome of the Arts and Sciences
18 Photographs, Aircraft
Boxes 19 and 20
2 boxes of slides
Boxes 21 and 22
2 card files
Box 23
21 newspaper cuttings regarding Benoist and Henry Evers