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  • Title
    Collection Relating to Exhibitions Celebrating Alcock & Brown
  • Reference
    YMS0067
  • Production date
    01-06-1919 - 31-12-1989
  • Creator
    • Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) LtdBiography
    • Manchester Airport plcBiography
    • Holloway, ElsieBiography
    • Science and Industry MuseumBiography
    • Rolls-Royce LtdBiography
    • Aer LingusBiography
    • Daily MirrorBiography
    • Norman Edwards Associates (Manchester)Biography
    • Royal Aero ClubBiography
    • The Daily TelegraphBiography
    • Manchester Chamber of Commerce and IndustryBiography
    • Guardian Media GroupBiography
    • The Daily MailBiography
    • Manchester Evening ChronicleBiography
    • Manchester Evening News LtdBiography
    • British Aircraft CorporationBiography
    • Royal MailBiography
    • Science Museum, LondonBiography
  • Scope and Content
    Collection of papers and photographs relating to exhibitions celebrating the first transatlantic flight by Captain Jack Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten-Brown. Consisting of copy photographic prints from the Vickers archive; copy photographic prints from Associated Newspapers; copy photographic prints from Aer Lingus showing an exhibition in an unknown location; photographic prints from commercial photographic studios; planning materials relating to an exhibition at Manchester Airport in 1969; commemorative publications for the 50th anniversary of the first transatlantic flight; commemorative publications relating to the memorials at Clifden and at Manchester Airport; catalogue for the Manchester Airport exhibition; two wooden plaques to mark the 50th anniversary of the first transatlantic flight; newspaper cuttings and copies of cuttings and articles relating to the flight and its anniversary.
  • Extent
    1 box
  • Language
    English
  • Archival history
    Material used in exhibitions about the careers of Captain Jack Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, with a focus on the world's first transatlantic flight in 1919.
  • Level of description
    TOP
  • Repository name
    Science and Industry Museum
  • Associated people and organisations
    • Alcock, John WilliamBiography
    • Brown, Arthur WhittenBiography
  • Subject
  • Conditions governing access
    Open access.
  • Conditions governing Reproduction
    Copies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions. Copying of some items restricted where these are secondary copies.
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