![]() This blank membership card for the Aero Club of Nebraska, left, features illustrations of a Baldwin airship and a Wright A biplane. Although the Archives only has this one example, this must have been a stock cover design for Hanriot-the contents of the brochure advertise the Hanriot Type H.46 Styx, a high-wing singleengine monoplane designed for liaison work. The whimsical cover of this late 1920s brochure from French aircraft manufacturer Hanriot features an illustration by Benjamin Rabier of a Hanriot HD 1 biplane soaring over impossibly pointy peaks as a member of the local mountain goat population watches in admiration. Now all I need to find is a ticket, a program, and a time machine, and I’m ready to go… ![]() I was immediately transported to a lunch counter in Chicago on a hot summer afternoon, enjoying a treat while thinking about the thrill of heading out to the airfield to see the action. ![]() In one of our air racing collections, for example, I found a bright red slip of paper advertising a “Pilot’s Delight Sundae” as a promotion for the 1930 National Air Races: For 25 cents, you could get crushed strawberry and pineapple, a chocolate cookie, and two flavors of ice cream. These items bring the past alive in a more intimate way than do the more formal reports and records. But the Archives is also home to ephemera-banquet menus, airline baggage labels, company brochures-that tell another kind of aviation and spaceflight history. ![]() Within the 20,000 cubic feet of archival materials at the National Air and Space Museum Archives are personal and professional papers, corporate and organizational records, 20,000 motion pictures, two million technical drawings, and three million photographic images. Most people hang on to bits of paper that they didn’t mean to save forever: a ticket stub from a concert, a greeting card, a tour brochure. Slipped between the pages of diaries and journals, glued into scrapbooks, and stuffed into envelopes, we’ve found things that were never meant to last. ![]()
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