This series is ordered as follows: (1) 1844 through 1902, (2) circa 1920-1983, and (3) scrapbook, 1947-1948.

The first group was given to Claremont Men's College by A. N. Kemp (possibly Alexander Nesbitt Kemp [1879-1955], former president of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co and wartime president of American Airlines) through his grandson, Sandy Kemp-Clark. The materials date from the years 1844-1847, 1872, 1879-1884, and 1898-1902, and are arranged chronologically. The majority of clippings are taken from the Illustrated London News, with one from The Graphic (1872), two from Black and White (1898, 1899), and two from unidentified sources (1882, circa 1902). The clippings relate exclusively to ballooning, and cover such subjects as a copper balloon at Paris (1844); ascents by British aeronauts James Hampton (1844) and Charles Green (1847); Dupuy de Lôme's balloon (1872); military ballooning (1873); balloon making (1874); the Brighton Review and the Illustrated London News balloon (1883); a pictorial commemoration of a centenary of ballooning (1884); Renard's and Krebs' electrically-steered balloon (1884); "From the Thames to the Seine by Balloon" (1898); Andree's Arctic expedition (1899); and Santos Dumont and his balloon at Monaco (1902).

The newspaper clippings in the second group fall into two time periods, 1928-1943, and [1968] 1974-1983. The clippings are arranged chronologically, with a few undated items at the beginning of each period. Clippings for the first period cover such subjects as Harriet Quimby and Ruth Law (undated); airlines operating in California (1928); the Burwash Aerial Expedition to the Arctic and the discovery of the remains of the Andree expedition (1930); the autogiro (1930, 1931); Mrs. Keith-Miller (1930); the destruction of the British airship R-101 (1930); the Schneider Trophy Race (1931); new developments in airplanes (1933, 1936); Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith (1934); and the introduction of the Douglas DC-4 (1937). Oversize materials for the same period cover such subjects as aviation pioneer John Montgomery (1930, 1968); instrument ("blind") flight (1933); Amelia Earhart (1937); and the introduction of the Lockheed Constellation (1943). Clippings for the period 1974-1983 relate primarily to aviation in Southern California, and cover such subjects as reunions and deaths of pioneer aviators; Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" (1975, 1983); the Continental Airlines DC-10 (1975, oversize); Santa Paula Airport (1976, 1978); and the 50th anniversary of Charles A. Lindbergh's transatlantic flight and the 1977 commemorative tour (1977).