This series comprises photographs and postcards relating to aviation, particularly for the period 1909-1950. It includes photographs documenting the Los Angeles Aviation Meet of January 1910, the Belmont Park Aviation Meet of october 1910, the San Francisco Air Meet of January 1911, the Radlett Air Show of September 1946, and the World Congress of Flight of April 1959. A large number of photographs document individual aviators, in particular, Arch Hoxey, the Wright brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and Clyde Pangborn. The materials also include an 1883 autographed photograph of the brothers Albert and Gaston Tissandier with their airship, and images of Matilde Moisant and Harriet Quimby, circa 1912. The bulk of the photographs of individual aircraft relate to those of U.S., French, and German manufacture, in particular, Consolidated Aircraft (later Consolidated Vultee, popularly known as Convair), 1923-1956; S.N.C.A.S.O., 1950-1958; and the Dornier DoX flying boat of 1930. The photographs include images of the airships USS Akron, Columbia, and Mayflower, and of the LZ127 "Graf Zeppelin". A number of postcards published circa 1930 depict historic aircraft and models in the Science Museum, London, including Henson and Stringfellow's flying machine of 1844-1845, Sir Hiram Maxim's 1894 flying machine, and biplanes by (inter alia) Voisin, Farman, Avro, Bristol, De Havilland, and Fairey. A small number of photographs document several U.S. airlines and Deruluft (Deutsch-Russische Luftverkehrs AG), which flew between Berlin and Moscow between 1929 and 1936; as well as the Zentralflughafen, Berlin, and Le Bourget airport, Paris, circa 1930.