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Marshall Space Flight Center, Redstone Arsenal 20th Anniversary Trade Show photograph album

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Description: An album of color photographs chronicling the 20th anniversary celebrations of the Redstone Arsenal, a United States Army post near Huntsville, Alabama, and its new status as home of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Photographs depict visiting dignitaries, including Major General John Barclay, and many product exhibits of a space program and defense contractor trade show. Companies whose products are displayed include: Du Pont and a proposed space suit, Boeing Company Minuteman Systems, I.B.M., Lockheed Aircraft, General Electric, Honeywell, and many others. Also included are several images of a Redstone missile standing next to its mobile launching platform. The color in the prints has faded considerably.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1961.
Call number: photCL 663
Provenance: Purchased from Zephyr Used & Rare Books, November 2021.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Subseries 4: Space Flight

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Photographs related to the testing and development of space vehicles and space structures, such as lunar landing vehicles, solar panels for space structures, and space shuttles. Several photographs document testing for splashdowns, when spacecraft land in water by parachute. Some projects related to NASA's Apollo and Gemini spacecraft.

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Saturn V rocket tests photograph album

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An album of photographs documenting the testing of the Saturn V Stage 2 rocket engine, along with images of its transport, assembly facilities, and project staff. The majority of photographs are official images produced by North American Aviation, Inc. and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and several have typed or written identifications. Images include the firing of the liquid hydrogen engines that were later used in 33 Apollo space missions; the Santa Susana Field Laboratory where operations took place; workers; the Seal Beach, California, assembly hangar; and NASA's Mississippi Test Facility. Also included is a printed congratulatory letter (and Saturn V photograph) from program manager William F. Parker to Laurence Cexton, who was a member of the Battleship Duration Cluster Firing test team.

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Space Center - Japan

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This collection consists of material created by and related to The Planetary Society since its beginning in 1980 and up to 2016. It contains Board of Directors correspondence, memorandums, and meeting minutes; material related to public relations, events, fundraising and membership; copies of The Planetary Report (not a complete set); NASA photo files; material related to the Solar Sail and the Mars Rover program; NASA and space exploration in general; Apollo reports; the Hubble Telescope; and US and Russian cooperation in space (including Planetary Society staff's trips to Russia). The collection also contains photographs and negatives; video cassette tapes and film; clippings; T-shirts, posters, badges, stickers, memorabilia; artwork; and miscellaneous material. There is material both about and by: Carl Sagan (including his 265-page curriculum vitae), Bruce Murray, Louis Friedman, Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Buzz Aldrin. There is artwork by space artists Ron Miller, Michael W. Carroll and Mark Paternostro among others.

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Photograph albums -- Avery International. Charles D. Miller, 20th Anniversary

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The Charles D. Miller papers consist primarily of memorabilia accumulated by Miller over the span of his career at Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company, Booz, Allen & Hamilton, and Avery Dennison Corporation. The combination of business records and Miller's personal notes, shows the growth of Avery Dennison under the leadership of a confident and innovative businessman. Also included are items related to his involvement as a business leader and community activist. There are also some personal letters and greeting cards sprinkled throughout the collection, primarily, during his later years. The memorabilia are organized chronologically and include, but not limited to: correspondence, clippings, information packets, memos, newsletters, notices, outlines, photographs, printed matter, reports, reviews, speeches, and summaries. At the beginning of the collection, there are items related to Miller's father, Mark A. Miller. They primarily concern his career at The Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company, where he was the assistant general manager. At the end of the collection, there are adhesive samples, stamps, compact discs, VHS, photograph albums, scrapbooks, and 3-D objects.

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Devinney, E. J. (Goddard Space Flight Center)

Manuscripts

The collection deals primarily with the professional activities of Olin C. Wilson, who was most active from the mid-1930s into the 1980s. Wilson corresponded frequently with astronomers from a variety of universities in the United States and abroad, and the collection is representative of the deeply international and collaborative nature of astronomical and astrophysical research in the second half of the twentieth century. It also contains valuable and insightful material related to the schism between Mount Wilson and CalTech in the 1970s and 1980s, and the near-demise of Mount Wilson during that decade.

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Nariai, Kyoji ([Japan]; Goddard Space Flight Center)

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