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ment of that drawing formed the background for the Aero Club of 

 Washington's Fiftieth Anniversary of Powered Flight banquet on 

 December 17. A copy of Frank Jefferies' detailed drawing of the 

 Air Force's Boeing P-26 fighter has also been received from the 

 original artist. Pan American World Airways arranged for the 

 painting of a scene representing their first flights to the Orient to 

 illustrate the Collier Trophy award of 1936 to that Airway. Joseph 

 Nieto, whose excellent drawings of aircraft are often featured in cur- 

 rent magazines, continued to send large-scale copies for the Museum 

 files, Robert Nevin, of Baltimore, Md., generously lent his large 

 collection of photographs and data pertaining to Glenn Martin air- 

 craft, so that prints and notes could be copied. 



For the following lots of reference material entries have been made 

 in a separate acknowledgment file : 



AiB Force, Depabtment of, Wright-Patterson A. F. B., Ohio : A large selection of 

 Technical Orders containing data on recent and current aii'craft. 



Berliner, Henry A., Riverdale, Md. : Copies of the James Means' Aeronautical 

 Annual for 1897, books on aerodynamics by Gustave Eiffel, and the loan of a 

 scrapbook of early aviation by James Lee Simmons. 



Brown, Maj. Kimbrotjoh S., U. S. A. F., Fort Walton Beach, Fla. : 71 books and 

 pamphlets pertaining to aeronautics, the majority relative to the World War I 

 period. 



Clemmons, Mrs. Anna B., Saratoga Springs, N. Y. : A collection of 654 photo- 

 graphs and 2 booklets of early Curtiss aircraft. 



CoEN, Mrs. Cuxr^EK, Peusacola, Fla. : An original souvenir program of the 1910 

 Belmont Park Air Meet. 



Collins, Isobel V., Washington, D. C. : 39 photographs of Bell airplanes, 37 of 

 them illustrating the P-39 Airacobra, and 2 of the XFM-1. 



Cuktiss-Wbight Corporation, Wood-Ridge, N. J.: 208 photogrophs of aircraft 

 produced by Glenn H. Curtiss, the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Co., and the 

 Curtiss-Wright Corporation. 



Emig, Mrs. C. E., Washington, D. C. : A collection of slides prepared by the late 

 Maj. Emig during World War I, and used for educational lectures on aircraft 

 construction and operation. 



Gabrielli, G., Torino, Italy : A collection of 103 photographs of Fiat aircraft 

 and engines, 6 pamphlets describing Fiat products and activities, a book, Fiat, 

 a 50 Years' Record, and a group of 4 small scale models of Fiat airplanes. 



Hauwood, Mrs. Georgia, Mantoo, N. C. (through the interest and help of Aycock 

 Brown) : 22 original photographic negatives taken by the late VanNess Har- 

 wood illustrating Orville Wright's glider experiments in 1911 when Wright 

 was developing his automatic stabilizer. 



La Grone, Mrs. John K., Kansas City, Mo. : 50 photographs of aircraft, mainly 

 of the period before and during World War I, flown by or associated with the 

 late "Tex" La Grone. 



LippiNCOTT, Harvey H., Hebron, Conn. : A collection of books, pamphlets, and 

 other printed reference material relative to current and recent types of aircraft 

 and engines. 



National Cash Register Co., Dayton, Ohio (through Carl Beust) : 271 photo- 

 graphs pertaining to the Wright brothers, including interior views of their 

 home, and of Orville's laboratory, and many of the Wright brothers' aeronauti- 

 cal activities. 



