MARC Record from Library of Congress

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040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC$edacs
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100 1 $aTowers, John H.$q(John Henry),$d1885-1955.
245 00 $aJohn H. Towers papers,$f1830-1989$g(bulk 1906-1955).
300 $a5,000$fitems.
300 $a15$fcontainers plus$a4$foversize.
300 $a8$flinear feet.
506 0 $aOpen to research.
520 8 $aCorrespondence, memoranda, diaries, writings, speeches, reports, aviation logs, biographical material, clippings, blueprints, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Towers's career in the U.S. Navy and as vice president of Pan American Airways Corporation. Subjects include his advocacy of naval aviation, his service with the Great White Fleet on its round the world voyage (1907-1909), Curtiss-Wright aircraft, the transatlantic flight of 1919, and American aerial operations in the Pacific during World War II. Includes notebooks compiled by Towers's wife, Pierrette Anne, when gathering information for a biography of Towers. Correspondents include Clementine Churchill and Henry James.
520 8 $aAlso includes reminiscences (1900) of William S. Towers concerning his Civil War service with Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, photocopies of a travel journal (1830) kept by Reuben S. Norton while traveling from Massachusetts to New Orleans, La., and Georgia, and a typewritten transcript of Norton's diary (1861-1895) of life in Rome, Ga., kept primarily during the Civil War.
541 $cDeposit,$aNaval Historical Foundation,$d1991-1994.
541 $cConverted to gift,$d1998.
544 $3Some photographs$etransferred to$aLibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
545 0 $aNaval officer and pioneer aviator.
546 $aCollection material in English.
555 8 $aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005008
580 $aForms part of: Naval Historical Foundation Collection.
600 10 $aForrest, Nathan Bedford,$d1821-1877.
600 10 $aChurchill, Clementine,$d1885-1977$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aJames, Henry,$d1843-1916$vCorrespondence.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bNavy$xAviation.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bNavy$xCruise, 1907-1909.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bNavy$xOfficers.
610 20 $aPan American Airways Corporation.
650 0 $aAeronautics, Commercial.
650 0 $aAeronautics, Military.
650 0 $aCurtiss-Wright aircraft.
650 0 $aNaval aviation.
650 0 $aTransatlantic flights.
650 0 $aVoyages around the world.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAerial operations, American.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xCampaigns$zPacific Ocean.
651 0 $aGeorgia$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aGeorgia$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865.
651 0 $aLouisiana$zNew Orleans$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aMississippi$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aRome (Ga.)$xHistory.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865.
656 7 $aAviators.$2itoamc
656 7 $aNaval officers.$2itoamc
700 1 $aNorton, Reuben S.$tReuben S. Norton papers.
700 1 $aTowers, Pierrette Anne.$tPierrette Anne Towers papers.
700 1 $aTowers, William M.$tWilliam M. Towers papers.
852 $aLibrary of Congress$bManuscript Division$eWashington, D.C. 20540 USA$ndcu$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home
856 4 $3Finding aid$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005008
856 4 $3Finding aid (PDF)$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005008.3