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Creator:

Verville, Alfred V.  Search this

Verville Aircraft Company  Search this

Former owner:

Buhl (Buhl-Verville Aircraft Co, Buhl Aircraft Co)  Search this

Names:

Sperry Co.  Search this

Extent:

55.67 Linear feet (106 containers: 92 legal size document boxes, 2 shoeboxes, 11 flatboxes, 1 large format folder)

5 Film reels (1 35mm, two 16mm, and 2 8mm films)

50.008 Cubic feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Film reels

Date:

1886-1969

Summary:

This collection contains Verville's personal papers. The material relates mainly to his various aeronautical concerns as well as his involvement with military aviation. The collection includes a large number of photos tracing the development of Curtiss aircraft and Naval Aviation, and especially documenting the design, construction, and flights of a replica of the Navy's first aircraft, the Curtiss A-1 'Triad', built under Verville's direction by the Bureau of Aeronautics to commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of Naval Aviation in 1961. Also included are a large number of blueprints and photos of Verville-designed aircraft, especially those developed by the Verville Aircraft Co. in 1928 - 1931

Scope and Contents:

Contents of this collection include blueprints, drawings, technical manuals, reference material, correspondence, financial information, event programs, photographs, newspapers and clippings, magazines, pamphlets, brochures, journals, books.

The researcher should note that the collection also contains 35mm, 16mm and 8mm films. These films are not included in the container list but a NASM Archives staff person can assist you regarding access.

Arrangement:

Organized into series:

SERIES 1: Correspondence

SERIES 2: Institute of the Aerospace Sciences (IAS) - Navy National Naval Aviation Meeting 1961 commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Naval Aviation in San Diego CA featuring the A-1 Replica

SERIES 3: Technical Materials

SERIES 4: Drawings

SERIES 5: Other Papers

SERIES 6: Publications

SERIES 7: Photographs

SERIES 8: Scrapbooks, Oversize Materials

SERIES 9: Additional Material

This collection was arranged at the time of processing to better reflect its main areas of subject matter as there was very little original order preserved. Original folder titles were kept when they appeared; archivists' folder titles are in brackets. Archivist's description appears below folder titles.

Series 9 represents an accrual of documents found within the archive in 2024.

Biographical / Historical:

Alfred Victor Verville (1890-1970), aviation pioneer and aircraft designer, was responsible for a number of important inventions in aircraft design, including welded-steel-frame fuselages and retractable landing gear. He began work with the Curtiss Aeroplane Co in 1914 and, by the end of World War I had moved through a number of manufacturers, including Curtiss (1914), T-M Airplane Co (1915), General Airplane Co (1915-17), and Fisher Body Corp, Airplane Division (1917-18). In 1918 he became involved in military aviation at the United States Army Air Corp Engineering Division, McCook Field , OH (1918-25) and served as advisor to Colonel William Mitchell during his inspection trip to Europe (1922). In 1925 he co-founded the Buhl-Verville Aircraft Co (1925-27) before striking out on his own with the Verville Aircraft Co (1928-31). Through the 1930s and 1940s he acted in a number of capacities, including periods as a consultant (1932, 1939-41); at the Bureau of Air Commerce, United States Department of Commerce (1933-36); Douglas Aircraft (1937-38); Curtiss Wright Corp (1941-42), Snead Aircraft, Technical Division (1942); and Drexel Aviation Co (1942-45). In 1945 he served as a member of the Naval Technical Mission to Europe and later joined the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics (1946-61). He retired in 1961, but continued to support aviation and aeronautics until his death.

Provenance:

Alfred Verville, gift, 1954

Restrictions:

No restrictions on access

Rights:

Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.

Topic:

Verville Aircraft  Search this

Alfred V. Verville  Search this

Aeronautics  Search this

Buhl-Verville Aircraft Co  Search this

Aircraft industry  Search this

Aeronautics, Commercial -- United States  Search this

Citation:

Alfred Victor Verville Papers, Acc. XXXX-0173, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NASM.XXXX.0173

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Alfred Victor Verville Papers

Archival Repository:

National Air and Space Museum Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg23776ee1d-329f-45da-8290-8158702e1cc5

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nasm-xxxx-0173

Collection Creator:

Verville, Alfred V.  Search this

Verville Aircraft Company  Search this

Extent:

1 Shoebox

Container:

Box 89

Type:

Archival materials

Photographs

Date:

1913-1961?

Scope and Contents:

Shoebox of misc. photographs including pictures of landscapes, people, aircraft and parts. Contains Wright-Field photo: 19570; contains Air Service photo: 10663

Collection Restrictions:

No restrictions on access

Collection Rights:

Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.

Collection Citation:

Alfred Victor Verville Papers, Acc. XXXX-0173, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

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Alfred Victor Verville Papers

Alfred Victor Verville Papers / Series 8: Oversize & Odd Materials

Archival Repository:

National Air and Space Museum Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg2286ad141-8442-49a3-80a2-97503c789df9

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nasm-xxxx-0173-ref230

Collection Creator:

Verville, Alfred V.  Search this

Verville Aircraft Company  Search this

Extent:

1 Shoebox

Container:

Box 90

Type:

Archival materials

Photographs

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Shoebox mostly of Dornier aircraft (most frequently the DO.X and the Merkur)

Collection Restrictions:

No restrictions on access

Collection Rights:

Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.

Collection Citation:

Alfred Victor Verville Papers, Acc. XXXX-0173, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

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Alfred Victor Verville Papers

Alfred Victor Verville Papers / Series 8: Oversize & Odd Materials

Archival Repository:

National Air and Space Museum Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg2122326dd-2711-4625-93e6-ce786f94dd1f

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nasm-xxxx-0173-ref232

Collection Creator:

Verville, Alfred V.  Search this

Verville Aircraft Company  Search this

Extent:

1 Shoebox

Container:

Box 91

Type:

Archival materials

Photographs

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Rolled and brittle photographs in need of conservation intervention. Includes a group panorama, landscapes, events, aircraft

Collection Restrictions:

No restrictions on access

Collection Rights:

Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.

Collection Citation:

Alfred Victor Verville Papers, Acc. XXXX-0173, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

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Alfred Victor Verville Papers

Alfred Victor Verville Papers / Series 8: Oversize & Odd Materials

Archival Repository:

National Air and Space Museum Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg29841e724-f978-4e37-a905-5d177b9d3164

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nasm-xxxx-0173-ref234

Collection Creator:

Verville, Alfred V.  Search this

Verville Aircraft Company  Search this

Extent:

1 Shoebox

Container:

Box 92

Type:

Archival materials

Text

Date:

1952-1960

Scope and Contents:

Aeronautical Engine Laboratory Report on AEL Museum Engines 1909-1951 Issued by Naval Air Experimental Station

Steichen, Capt. Edward, comp. US Navy War Photographs. New York: US Camera

Niven, John, Courtlandt Canby, and Vernon Welsh, eds. Dynamic America; a History of General Dynamics Corporation and Its Predecessor Companies. New York: General Dynamics and Doubleday & Company, Inc.

Collection Restrictions:

No restrictions on access

Collection Rights:

Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.

Collection Citation:

Alfred Victor Verville Papers, Acc. XXXX-0173, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

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Alfred Victor Verville Papers

Alfred Victor Verville Papers / Series 8: Oversize & Odd Materials

Archival Repository:

National Air and Space Museum Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg2422a97d6-8758-40e5-b87b-9bd284f0e961

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nasm-xxxx-0173-ref237

Collection Creator:

Verville, Alfred V.  Search this

Verville Aircraft Company  Search this

Extent:

1 Shoebox

Container:

Box 93

Type:

Archival materials

Text

Date:

1942-1948

Scope and Contents:

U.S. Navy Service Airplane Characteristics and Performance Data Sheets, 1942-1948

A sample of aluminum alloy from the Detroit Aircraft Corp.

Collection Restrictions:

No restrictions on access

Collection Rights:

Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.

Collection Citation:

Alfred Victor Verville Papers, Acc. XXXX-0173, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

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Alfred Victor Verville Papers

Alfred Victor Verville Papers / Series 8: Oversize & Odd Materials

Archival Repository:

National Air and Space Museum Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg2969dab3e-3673-4a55-9305-7aaa3c66692b

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nasm-xxxx-0173-ref240

Collection Creator:

Verville, Alfred V.  Search this

Verville Aircraft Company  Search this

Extent:

1 Shoebox

Container:

Box 97

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1935-1962

Scope and Contents:

Photographs: Two mounted color 8x10 portraits of Alfred Verville

Magazines: The Sportsman Pilot July 1935; Aircraft Engineering Jan & Feb. 1936; Pictorial California 1957

Proof copy? of The Story of Rickey. Includes correspondence re: publication. 1951

Certificates: Fellowship from American Institute Of Aeronautics and Astronautics. 1962

Collection Restrictions:

No restrictions on access

Collection Rights:

Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.

Collection Citation:

Alfred Victor Verville Papers, Acc. XXXX-0173, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

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Alfred Victor Verville Papers

Alfred Victor Verville Papers / Series 8: Oversize & Odd Materials

Archival Repository:

National Air and Space Museum Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg285a1cf01-db76-4776-bdb3-2de9694b69f9

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nasm-xxxx-0173-ref246

Collection Creator:

Verville, Alfred V.  Search this

Verville Aircraft Company  Search this

Extent:

1 Shoebox

Container:

Box 98

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1911-1961

Scope and Contents:

Mounted 9.5" x 7.5" photograph of plane construction (no identification, undated)

Magazines: Collier's Dec. 25, 1948 --Wright Brothers cover; Scientific American Supplement Aug. 2, 1919; Air Trails Pictorial Aug. 1946; Country Life in America July 15, 1911

Newsprint: San Diego Press Dispatch Vol. 1, No.4 July 6, 1961; North Islander Vol. 37, No.30

Drawing: No. 1000, A-1 Replica. 1961

Award for Distinguished Service from the U.S. War Dept., n.d.; Service Member certificate from the Society of Automotive Engineers, 1921; Drawing of Curtiss Biplane, 1911; Drawing of A-1 Replica # 59A134, 1959

Collection Restrictions:

No restrictions on access

Collection Rights:

Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.

Collection Citation:

Alfred Victor Verville Papers, Acc. XXXX-0173, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

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Alfred Victor Verville Papers

Alfred Victor Verville Papers / Series 8: Oversize & Odd Materials

Archival Repository:

National Air and Space Museum Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg2fb93cb98-1751-415d-90c0-f898da2663bc

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nasm-xxxx-0173-ref247

Collection Creator:

Verville, Alfred V.  Search this

Verville Aircraft Company  Search this

Extent:

1 Shoebox

Container:

Box 99

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1909-1911; 1929

Scope and Contents:

Photographs: Curtiss Planes/Flights/Pilots

Scrapbook: 1929 newspaper clippings

Collection Restrictions:

No restrictions on access

Collection Rights:

Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.

Collection Citation:

Alfred Victor Verville Papers, Acc. XXXX-0173, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

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Alfred Victor Verville Papers

Alfred Victor Verville Papers / Series 8: Oversize & Odd Materials

Archival Repository:

National Air and Space Museum Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg2083c7e25-5496-41e4-a480-aff69ec3c64d

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nasm-xxxx-0173-ref253

Collection Creator:

Verville, Alfred V.  Search this

Verville Aircraft Company  Search this

Extent:

1 Shoebox

Container:

Box 94

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1908-1915

Scope and Contents:

Two Scrapbooks: 1908-1909 newspaper clippings with occasional small photographs; "Curtiss Aviation Development 1908-1915" photos with captions

Collection Restrictions:

No restrictions on access

Collection Rights:

Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.

Collection Citation:

Alfred Victor Verville Papers, Acc. XXXX-0173, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

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Alfred Victor Verville Papers

Alfred Victor Verville Papers / Series 8: Oversize & Odd Materials

Archival Repository:

National Air and Space Museum Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg2b6206f31-9b7d-4bbd-88e2-462238cf4e14

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nasm-xxxx-0173-ref255

Collection Creator:

Verville, Alfred V.  Search this

Verville Aircraft Company  Search this

Extent:

1 Shoebox

Container:

Box 96

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1918-1922

Scope and Contents:

Originally kept together receipts, menus, correspondence, calling cards, hotel bills, train schedules, transportation requests, theatre programs, etc.

Probably collected during the travel for "Report of Inspection Trip to France, Italy, Germany, Holland and England Made During the Winter of 1921-1922 by Brigadier General William Mitchell, 1st Lt Clayton Bissell and Aeronautical Engineer Alfred Verville"

Collection Restrictions:

No restrictions on access

Collection Rights:

Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.

Collection Citation:

Alfred Victor Verville Papers, Acc. XXXX-0173, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

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Alfred Victor Verville Papers

Alfred Victor Verville Papers / Series 8: Oversize & Odd Materials

Archival Repository:

National Air and Space Museum Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg2dadff09a-bf06-413c-acde-1aef509db206

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nasm-xxxx-0173-ref259

Collection Creator:

Verville, Alfred V.  Search this

Verville Aircraft Company  Search this

Extent:

1 Shoebox

Container:

Box 95

Type:

Archival materials

Text

Date:

1916-1929

Collection Restrictions:

No restrictions on access

Collection Rights:

Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.

Collection Citation:

Alfred Victor Verville Papers, Acc. XXXX-0173, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

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Alfred Victor Verville Papers

Alfred Victor Verville Papers / Series 8: Oversize & Odd Materials

Archival Repository:

National Air and Space Museum Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg2c0eeb38c-0d55-402b-8039-8f0f5053160f

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nasm-xxxx-0173-ref983

Author:

Holt, George  Search this

Physical description:

140 pages illustrations 23 cm

Type:

Books

History

Place:

United States

États-Unis

Date:

2017

Topic:

B-58 bomber  Search this

B-58 bomber--Design and construction--History  Search this

Bombers  Search this

Airplanes, Military  Search this

Airplanes, Military--Attrition  Search this

Airplanes, Military--Cost of operation  Search this

B-58 (Bombardier)  Search this

Bombardiers  Search this

Avions militaires  Search this

Avions militaires--Obsolescence  Search this

Avions militaires--Frais d'exploitation  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1162143

Creator:

National Air and Space Museum  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2018-12-13T13:53:48.000Z

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Education  Search this

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Aeronautics;Flight;Space Sciences  Search this

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YouTube Channel:

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EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

National Air and Space Museum  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2020-12-14T15:06:59.000Z

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Science & Technology  Search this

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EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

National Air and Space Museum  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2017-08-25T17:01:53.000Z

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Data Source:

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YouTube Channel:

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EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_14Y8jCHGYZ4

Creator:

National Air and Space Museum  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2022-10-13T21:50:35.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

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Data Source:

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EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

National Air and Space Museum  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2016-10-28T00:16:30.000Z

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Education  Search this

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EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

National Air and Space Museum  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2022-04-04T14:52:58.000Z

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Science & Technology  Search this

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EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_20ZWqCMlPUk

Creator:

National Air and Space Museum  Search this

Type:

Lesson Plans

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2020-09-04T20:30:00.000Z

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