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- mm93081197 abstract "Correspondence, 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. Also 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.".
- mm93081197 accessRights "Open to research.".
- mm93081197 accrualMethod "Converted to gift,".
- mm93081197 accrualMethod "Deposit,".
- mm93081197 contributor B12953090.
- mm93081197 contributor B12953091.
- mm93081197 coverage "Georgia Description and travel.".
- mm93081197 coverage "Georgia History Civil War, 1861-1865.".
- mm93081197 coverage "Louisiana New Orleans Description and travel.".
- mm93081197 coverage "Mississippi Description and travel.".
- mm93081197 coverage "Rome (Ga.) History.".
- mm93081197 coverage "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865.".
- mm93081197 date "||||".
- mm93081197 description "Also 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.".
- mm93081197 description "Converted to gift, 1998.".
- mm93081197 description "Correspondence, 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.".
- mm93081197 description "Deposit, Naval Historical Foundation, 1991-1994.".
- mm93081197 description "Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005008".
- mm93081197 description "Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation Collection.".
- mm93081197 description "Naval officer and pioneer aviator.".
- mm93081197 description "Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.".
- mm93081197 extent "15 4".
- mm93081197 extent "5,000".
- mm93081197 extent "8".
- mm93081197 identifier eadmss.ms005008.
- mm93081197 identifier eadmss.ms005008.3.
- mm93081197 issued "||||".
- mm93081197 language "Collection material in English.".
- mm93081197 language "eng".
- mm93081197 rights "Open to research.".
- mm93081197 spatial "Georgia Description and travel.".
- mm93081197 spatial "Georgia History Civil War, 1861-1865.".
- mm93081197 spatial "Louisiana New Orleans Description and travel.".
- mm93081197 spatial "Mississippi Description and travel.".
- mm93081197 spatial "Pacific Ocean.".
- mm93081197 spatial "Rome (Ga.) History.".
- mm93081197 spatial "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865.".
- mm93081197 subject "Aeronautics, Commercial.".
- mm93081197 subject "Aeronautics, Military.".
- mm93081197 subject "Churchill, Clementine, 1885-1977 Correspondence.".
- mm93081197 subject "Curtiss-Wright aircraft.".
- mm93081197 subject "Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877.".
- mm93081197 subject "James, Henry, 1843-1916 Correspondence.".
- mm93081197 subject "Naval aviation.".
- mm93081197 subject "Pan American Airways Corporation.".
- mm93081197 subject "Transatlantic flights.".
- mm93081197 subject "United States. Navy Aviation.".
- mm93081197 subject "United States. Navy Cruise, 1907-1909.".
- mm93081197 subject "United States. Navy Officers.".
- mm93081197 subject "Voyages around the world.".
- mm93081197 subject "World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations, American.".
- mm93081197 subject "World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Pacific Ocean.".
- mm93081197 title "John H. Towers papers, 1830-1989 (bulk 1906-1955).".
- mm93081197 type "collection".