Name/Title
Photos of customers or staff of the San Francisco Bay Airdrome, c. 1930sEntry/Object ID
1998.307.6Description
Acc. No. 98.307.6 (a-k)
Subject Category: Aviation - Personalities and/or their Aircraft
Date or Period: Cira 1930's
Object: Photographs
Description: Set of black/white photographs, mostly modern photocopies, unmounted, from the Ray P. Bowman Aeronautical Collection. Photographers unknown.
k. is damaged by margin tears and creasing.
Sizes: #a-d: L-8 x W-10 in.; #e-i: L-10 x W-8 in.; j: L-6 x W-8 in.; k: L-8 1/2 x W-11
History of Object: Celebrities, businessmen and/or their airplanes with which Ray P. Bowman of the San Francisco Bay Airdrome, Alameda, dealt with as customers and/ or friends: a) Ray Bowman with his secretary, Miss Pat Kendall and others; b) Frank Jackson of Jackson Furniture, Oakland; c) Greg Hills of Hills Bros. Coffee w/his 4-Place Kinner airplane; d) H.V. King of Standard Oil w/his Kinner Sportster; e) Leonard Daniels & wife w/their Stearman-Hammond; f) Ray Bowman; g) Lawrie & Helen Ames w/their Stearman-Hammond; h): "Iron-Hat" Johnson, stunt flier; i) D.C. Warren & E.B. Christopher of the Curtis-Wright dealership; j) Ray Bowman w/ Curtis "Challenger"; k) Col Hubert Julian, "the World's Foremost Negro Aviator", autographed in ink.
Acquired from: Ray P. Bowman
Date: 9/19/98
