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Catalog Number/Object ID |
2014-132-00397 |
Object Name |
Folder, File |
Title |
Marblehead Aviation |
Caption of Image |
Marblehead Aviation |
Scope & Content/Description |
Folder labeled " Marblehead Aviation" containing the following items: 1., 2., & 3. Sheets with newspaper article titled "Those Wonderful Flying Machines", by Sam Perkins including photos of Starling Burgess pilots a Flying Fish in 1910 Squantum meet, Landing on the White House lawn, 1911, Burgess-Dunne Hydroplane and Norman Prince attached. 4. Sheet with newspaper article titled "Aviation Pioneers' Story to be Retold" about a Marblehead Historical Society lecture by Bartlett Gould and Bowden Osborne including photos of Burgess seaplane being launched and Burgess biplane in harbor in 1917 attached . 5. Sheet with newspaper article titled "Females Do Well" about employing women at the Burgess Co. with two photos, Navy trainer under construction in Marblehead at Burgess factory and Lack of performance in early aircraft was made up by daredevil flying. 6. Sheet with newspaper article titled "The Way It Was" about the Burgess Flying boat and Flying School used during World War I with photo of seaplane about to launch with W. Starling Burgess at the controls attached. 7. Sheet with newspaper photo of seaplane in either Marblehead or Gloucester harbor titled "Information Invited" and below it and on the back a newspaper article titled "This is Marblehead no question about it" identifying the above photo shows the Marblehead Electric Light Company and Burgess Airplane Company and a seaplane in Marblehead Harbor. Also includes photos of Burgess Navy Flying Boat built in Marblehead with Marblehead Neck in background and Lynner Roscoe P. Timson's plane being tested in Nahant, 1911. 8. Sheet with Newspaper article titled "Up, up and away - in aero's early days in town" with photo's of Starling Burgess's Little Harbor airplane factory which burned on Nov. 7, 1918 and Sterling Burgess sits on one of his early models. 9. Sheet with photos of The First Burgess Airplane factory on Gregory Street. and an Early Flying Boat from Down Memory Lane with Harry Wilkinson attached. 10. & 11. Sheet with newspaper article titled "Busy Airplane Factory Was Once Operated Here" including photos of early airplanes being manufactured in Marblehead between 1912 and 1918, Burgess sea going biplane taxis near Redstone Lane, Starling Burgess, and Early Biplane is turned out at Building No. 3 of the Burgess Company attached. 12. Sheet with newspaper article Memory Lane by Harry Wilkinson about William H. Riley who worked with Starling Burgess including a photo of Burgess and Riley in a biplane in mid-harbor attached. 13. & 14. Typed article titled "Remarkable Flight" copied from the June 9, 1911 Marblehead Messenger. 15. & 16. Sheet with newspaper articles Titled " The Greater Lynn area played important part in the development of the aircraft" by Bill Kettinger and "A Founder is Remembered" including photos of Harry Atwood takes Charles E. Whitten for a spin and Captain Alfred A. Cunningham Marine Corps aviator attached 17. Sheet with newspaper article titled "Marine Corps aviation dips its wings to Marblehead," by Bill Rolfe with photos of Alfred A. Cunningham and Four Squadrons of the 1st Marine Aviation Force attached. 18. Sheet with newspaper articles titled "Origin of model plane traced" by Frank Murphy and Memory Lane by Harry Wilkenson about the Burgess Plant at Redstone Lane including photos of model of early aircraft donated to the town and Burgess Aeroplane Plant on Redstone Lane attached. 19. Sheet with newspaper article titled "Town named birthplace of Marine aviation" including photos of Workmen assemble Burgess Model U-2 at plant No. 2 and A new hydroplane is lower into Marblehead harbor at Burgess Plant No. 1. 20. & 21. Sheet with newspaper article titled "Marblehead officially declared birthplace of Marine aviation" by Jo Ann Rowe including photos of Marine Band at dedication ceremony, Mrs. Virginia Gamage, local historian speaking at dedication and Selectman Chairman Marilyn Ries viewing Plaque and Marine Brig. Gen. John V. Cox making proclamation. |
Subjects |
Marblehead Aviation |
Catalog date |
2014-12-01 |
People |
Astor, John Atwood, Harry N. Barnard, E. J. Berry, Albert Bleriot, Louis Bliss, Philip Brookins, Walter Burgess, Edward Burgess, W. Starling Chanute, Octave Collier, Robert J. Cox, Gen. John V. Cunningham, Alfred A. Curtis, Glen Curtis, Greely S. Davis, J. W. Fairbanks, Douglas Gould, Bartlett Hamilton, Charles K. Herring, Agustus Hilliard, William Hood, Ted Hoxie, Arch Johnstone, Ralph Langley, Samuel Law, Rodman Lilienthal, Otto Marcus, David Maxner, Carl H. McCloskey, Sgt. Jack Moisant, John B. Oliver, Mrs.Ruth Law Osborne, Bowden Parker, C. M. Pickford, Mary Pinot, Marcel Pfitzner, Alexander Prince, Norman Ray, Jim Riley, William H. Ritchofen, Baron Von Rolls, Charles W. Russell, Frank H. Siggrist, Fred Skene, M. L. Sopwith, Tommy Taft, Charlie Taft, William Howard Timson, Roscoe P. Tyrrell, Harold Tudor, Rosamund Wilkenson, Harry Whitten, Charles E. Wood, Harry Wright, Wilbur |
Search Terms |
Burgess Airplanes Burgess Factories Marine Corps Aviation |
Lexicon category |
6: T&E For Communication |
Lexicon sub-category |
Written Communication T&E |
Collection |
Cole, Raymond F., Dr. Collection |
Condition |
Good |