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Douglas Robinson Collection

Douglas Robinson Collection
Lighter-Than-Air

Box 1
1.-2. B-58 Hustler Data
3.-7. B-58 Hustler Photographs
8.
B-58 Technical Data and Development Data


Box 2
Three flight logbooks on German Dirigibles, 1917-1920
No. 1 & 2 Aviation Medicine notebooks
North Sea Battles notebook
A – E Summary of Air Information notebooks

Box 3
Nos. 1 – 9 War Diaries on Dirigibles conducting night air raids, 1937 Diary

Box 4
1.-4. Correspondence and notes on Zeppelins

Box 5
1.-3. Correspondence and notes on Zeppelins

Box 6
1.-3. Correspondence and notes on Zeppelins

Box 7
1.-3. Correspondence and notes on Zeppelins

Box 8
1.-3. Correspondence and notes on Zeppelins
4.
Correspondence: Litchfield Fickes Navy

Box 9
1.
LZ 130, The Graf Zeppelin II Test flights and descriptions, Vol. 3
2.
Flights LZ 129 Hindenburg, Vol. 4
3.
General Description LZ 129 Hindenburg, Vol. 2
4.
Airplane Carrier Airship, General Arrangement Drawing 9P-0957
5.
The Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. Project 1, 2, and 3/A Prospectus, 1927

Box 10
1.
Papers published and otherwise:

"The Price of Honor: The World War Letters of Naval Aviator Kenneth
MacLeish".
"Sackgasse Im Himmel"
2.
Papers published and otherwise:

"Zeppelins in the German Navy, 1914-18"
"Barnstorming with Champagne"
"The Old Ithaca Airport, 1914-1965"
"Zeppelin: A Significant Chapter in the History Book of Aviation"
"Aircraft in Storage at the National Air Museum"
"The Last Fight of the U.S.S. Atik"
"Zeppelin: Wegbereiter des Weltluftverkehrs"
"Fear and the Flying Public"
"Design of German Zeppelins in WWI"
"German Navy Zeppelins Pictures"
"Data on Zeppelins of the German Navy"
"Sir Egbert Cadbury"
"The U-Boat of Scapa Flow"
"Der Krieg in Der Nordsee, Vol. 7"
"The Airplane-Carrying Airship: The First Experiment"
"A Prophecy from the Year 1910",
"World Power or Downfall!/The Story of the "Silent Raid"
3.
Papers and published and otherwise:

"German Pressure Airships in World War I"
"The Mystery of the "Dixmude"
"Hydrogen for German Airships in World War I"
"A Record Balloon Flight from the year 1910"
"Hindenburg" Retrospect"
"The Deaths of the Andree Party"
"Famous Aircraft Series: The LZ 129 "Hindenburg"
"The Loss of the Zeppelin L 36: A Lesson in Airship Handling"
"For Wingfoot LTA Bulletin," August 19, 1962
"A Land Based Fighter Taking Off at Sea"
"Flying the Zeppelin Bomber"
"The Last Resting Place of the Leader of Airships"
"An Outsider’s Interest in the M.L.A."
"The Zeppelin Bomber—High Policy Guided by Wishful Thinking"
"Max Pruss"
"Friedrich Moch"
"From the Records of the German Naval Airship Service"
"The Friedrichshafen Raid of November 21, 1914"
4.
Papers, published and otherwise:
"The Flight to Africa of the German Naval Airship L59"
"Willful Disobedience of a Superior Officer"
"The Loss of the German Naval Airship L 62 on May 10, 1918"
"The Millionth Chance: The Story of the R-101"
"The Continental Frigate "Confederacy"
"Born in London—Died in London/Hauptmann Wilhelm Schramm of SL 11”
"Antilles Air Boats of the Virgin Islands/The Commercial Flying Boat Thirty
Years After"
"The 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the German Naval Airship
Division", "A Stranger in Paradise"
"Zeppelin Intelligence"
"The Pressure Cabin in Commercial Aviation"
"Fear and the Flying Public"
"The Rigid Airship—The Dream and the Reality"
"The Effectiveness of the Dirigible in Military Operations"
"Passenger Flying in the Big Zeppelins"
"Commercial Zeppelin Operations"
"The Marine-Luftschiffer-Kameradschaft of Hamburg"
"The Rigid Airship—Designers and Design Problems"
"John Rosbrugh/Clerical Martyr of the Revolution"
"First Aerial Voyage in America"
"For Aerospace Historian"
5.
Papers, published and otherwise:
"German Air Power in World War I"
"The Eagle Aloft: Two Centuries of the Balloon in America"
"After the War: An Historical Novel Based on the Life of Rittmeister Manfred
von Richthofen, the Red Baron"
"Fire Over England: The German Air Raids of World War I"
"Airship Saga"
"Ein Deutscher Namens Eckener"
"For Buoyant Flight"
"The Commercial Zeppelins "Bodensee" and "Nordstern"
"Vasa-R 101 Challenger"
"Hindenburg Retrospect"
"Zeppelin Intelligence"
"The Ordeal of Harold Tittman"
"Comments on Airshipmen, Businessmen, and Politics: 1890-1949"
"Kaiser Wilhelm II-History’s Outstanding Example of Minimal Brain
Dysfunction"

Box 11
Two Bound Volumes of the manuscript: The German Naval Airship Serviced, by
Douglas Robinson Parts 1 and 2, 1912-1920

Box 12
Two bound Volumes of the manuscript: ZRS 4 & 5 by Richard K. Smith, Parts 1 and
2

Box 13
Bound Volume of manuscript: Shenandoah/Los Angeles/ZR-2 by Douglas H.
Robinson, MD.
Xerox copy of manuscript: Comments on Zeppelin Book by Peter M. Bowers, Seattle,
October, 1981

Box 14
Xerox copy of manuscript: The Dangerous Sky/A History of Medicine in Aviation by
Douglas H. Robinson, MD.

Xerox copy of manuscript: The Golden Age of the Great Rigid Airships Graf Zeppelin
and Hindenburg by Harold G. Dick with Douglas H. Robinson

Box 15
Bound Volume of manuscript: The Zeppelin in Combat by Douglas H. Robinson

Xerox copy of manuscript: Normandy and After by Douglas H. Robinson

Box 16
Bound Volume of manuscript: Giant in the Sky by Douglas H. Robinson

Box 17
Bound Volume of manuscript: The Zeppelin in Combat by Douglas H. Robinson

Box 18
1.
Subject:
Report on Hindenburg Flights, 1936
Observation Report on Flights Nos. 34 & 35 of German Airship Hindenburg,
1936
Observations aboard L.S. Hindenburg 1936
Report of Observation on Flights Nos. 44 & 45 on German Airship
Hindenburg, 1936
Report on Flight to Frankfort, Germany and Return, on the Hindenburg, 1936
Report on visit to Germany, 1936
Report on German shore facilities for airships and other data…, 1936
Report on conference at Lakehurst relative to arrangements for LZ-129, 1934

2.
Subject:

File of correspondence relating to airplane hook-ons with Hindenburg, 1936
Correspondence: European aircraft instruments, 1937
General Description: The 300 H.P. Maybach Aero Engine
Report: American Zeppelin Transport, Inc.
Notes on Visit to Friedrichshafen, 1930
Design Memorandum No. 313, 1939
(German) Dritte Offentliche Sitzung… 1938
Xerox copies of airship drawings
Blueprint of Friedrichshafen L49 by Robert Casari, Sheets 1 and 2
Revocable Permit: The Luftschiffbau-Zeppelin… Correspondence

3.
Subject:

Demonstration flights of the airship Hindenburg LZ-129, 1956
Miscellaneous reports on the LZ-129
Letter reports to Adm. E.J. King on LZ-129
Report on L.S. Hindenburg Flight No. 34 to Frankfort, Germany
Subject: Report on Hindenburg Flights, 1936
Observations on Flights No. 29 and 53, 1936
Report of Observations on Airship Hindenburg, 1936

4.
Xerox copies of Miscellaneous reports, 1917-18

Box 19
1.
Scrapbook: Newspaper clippings of: Helicopters, gliders Heavier-Than-Air:
Box-kite, 1903-08, Wright bi-plane, Bleriot monoplane, Curtiss models Morane
Saulnier Parasols, and many more earlier airplane too numerous to mention here
2.
Scrapbook: Newspapers clippings of: Curtiss P-6E, the Pterodactyl Mark IV,
Heinkel, Jimmy Doolittle’s Gee-Bee and many more, 1930-
3.
Scrapbook: Plans of early experiments of airplanes, 1903
4.-5. Photographs/Early airships and officers

Box 20
1.
Mr. Robinson’s dissertation with photographs and calendar of events of his visit
to Friedrichshafen to view the LZ-130, 1937
2.
Design concept and photographs of the B-58 bomber Report: Power Plant
Development for the B-58
3.
Xerox copy: The First Air Voyage in America
4.
Publication: Log Chips, 1951-52
5.
Data on Zeppelins Airships in the War-and The Future, Two Brochures:
Zeppelins in the German Navy, 1914-18, Brochures: The Zeppelin History
Trans-Atlantic Press Flight, 1939, Imperial Airways Gazette
6.
Miscellaneous reports, photographs, memos, German report, 1923
7.
Two reports: "The Supersonic Airliner" and "The Intercontinental Airliner" by
R.K. Smith 1929-39, 1982=
8.
German language reports
9.
Reports: Measures for improving the Zeppelin Airships for Long Distance
Transportation, 1980, The Development of the Zeppelin Airship for Long
Distance Transportation, The Development of the Zeppelin Dirigible for Long
Distance Transportation, 1980, The Hindenburg/These Things I Remember,
1977, Altitude Record Established by Capt. Schroeder 1918, Research regarding
the conditions effecting the efficiency of flyers, 1922, History of the First Sam
Low Pressure Chamber, 1959, The Father of Space Medicine-Dr. Strughold

Box 21
1.
German Reports
2.
Hindenburg Reports: Guggenheim Fellowship Project Proposal, The Loss of
the Airship R101, The Hindenburg Correspondence, Report: Lighter-Than-Air
in the Navy, and the Shenandoah Story, 1964, Three articles taken from
"Flight" on the L64 and L71, 1921
3.
Xerox copy of: The Disaster of the Hindenburg, Various reports, 11 packages
of Lighter-Than-Air photographs

Box 22
11 Audio tapes, Classical music
9 Audio tapes, speeches and interviews

Box 23
Photograph Albums

Box 24
35 mm slides, glass plates

Box 25
Photos of dirigibles and crews

Box 26
Manuscript: The Story of United States Navy, Airships in World War II by Vice
Admiral C.E. Rosendahl, 1961

Box 27

Miscellaneous photographs

Box 28
Manuscript: The Story of the United States Navy Airships in World War I by: Vice
Admiral C.E. Rosendahl
Manuscript: The Lakehurst Navy U.S. Navy Rigid Airships 1919 – 1935 by: Douglas
H. Robinson and Charles L. Keller

Box 29
1.
Manuscript: The Disaster of the Hindenburg by: Shelley Tanaka
2.
Brochure: The British Rigid Airship 1908-1931, Captured and Related Records,
1974
3.
Notes and correspondence regarding The Zeppelin in Combat

Box 30

1.
Manuscript: The Last of the Knights, Notes on Henirich Mathy
2.
Material and correspondence re: Heinrich Mathy
3.
Correspondence from publishers on "The Dangerous Sky"
4.
Miscellaneous correspondence

Box 31
1.
1a Photographs
2.
Newspaper clippings
3.
Personal correspondence
4.
Memorial service for the officers and men of the H.M. Airship R38, 1921
5.
Miscellaneous reports: Chart, silhouettes of different types of Zeppelin Airships
from 1900 to 1919, Drawings of airships, Various magazine articles, Article:
Airship History Investigation: Report No. 5, Luftschiff, Hindenburg (German)
1939, Article: Pilgrimage to Friedrichshafen, Article: U.S.S. Macon
6.
Miscellaneous reports: Marine-Luftschiffer Kameradschaft (German), 1965,
Fahrt des Marine-Luftlchiffes (German), 1916, Article: Diesel Aircraft Engine
Specifications
7.
Report: Hindenburg Guest Flight, 1936
8.
Blueprints: 4 U.S.C.G. Taney
9.
Ballast sheets
10. Drawing: H.M. Rigid Airship No. 9
11. Reports: Germany’s Giant Wood, Report of Inspection of German Naval
Aircraft, Subject: German Airships in Naval Service During the World War,
1922
12. Articles, Drawings, Blueprint

Box 32
1.
"The New Yorker" – Article: The Deltoid Seed, 1973
2.
Index of the material in the Tambach Archives relating to the German Naval
Airship division in WWI, Miscellaneous photographs and aircraft drawings,
Appendix: Ships of the Naval Airship Service
3.
Photographs: Captain & Crew of the Graf Zeppelin
4.
Fabric from C-Z Aeronca – N 655W
5.
Body plan of the ‘Spray’, Body plan of the Nordholz Airship Station, Track of
Airship Hindenburg over Lakehurst, 1937, Body plan of Rigid Dirigible Balloon
6.
Types of German Airships, Report: Das Starre Stahlluftschiff System Unger…,
Map: Skegness to Blakeney including the Wash/England, East Coast
7.
German reports: Kriegsfahrt eines modernen…, Mit Schutte Lanz Luftkreuzer
S.L. &, 5 copies "Der Luftweg", 1924
8.
Album – Airships
9.
Plans: Airships, LZ-62 and Zeppelin
10. 4 packages of postcard photographs

Box 33
1.
Report: The Aereon Corp. and its Lifting Body Airships
2.
Amsterdam Boek bv
3.
William Melville Alexander
4.
Dr. August Greth, and the First Airship Flight in the United States
5.
Lloyd E. Klos correspondence
6.
Dave Collier
7.
Frederich Moch papers and correspondence

Box 34
1.
German reports, papers, maps, photographs
2.
Alicia Miller papers, reports, correspondence
3.
Purnell’s History of the First World War
4.
Sir Peter Mansfield Correspondence
5.
Howard B. Unruh papers
6.
Louis Bennet, Jr. file
7.
Falklands: Material regarding the war
8.
1957 Trip to Germany
9.
Ships

Box 35
1.
Aviation Medicine
2.
Newspaper clippings/gliding and soaring
3.
International Naval Review and Fleet Week
4.
Ship Losses of the U.S. Navy 1775-1955
5.
WACO RNF

Box 36
1.
Research material from the Smithsonian Institution Pr., Article: "The Golden
Age of the Great Rigid Airships", Drawings: German Dirigible LZ-129
Hindenburg, Outline: Title: "The Silver Ships in the Sky: Four Years at the
Zeppelin Works", Xerox copy: Recalling the Passenger-Carrying Zeppelins,
Brochure: "France Perceives the Zeppelins, 1924-1937, Newspaper article:
Hindenburg explosion, German article: "Dienst-Anweisung
2.
Correspondence, 1935,79-81
3.
Correspondence,1982-84
4.
Correspondence, 1985-93

Box 37
Newspaper clippings, German road map, Articles from the Graphic Magazine, The
National Observer, Today/A Space Age History, The Illustrated London News

Box 38
1.
Rede am Tage der Grablegung des Grafen Zeppelin
2.
"Airshipwreck" by Len Deighton
3.
German Administrative Report 137/3964
4.
Blueprint: Zeppelin L-49
5.
The Machinery of H.M. Rigid Airships R33 and R34
6.
Calendar for 1929: Pictures of Airships, Pilot chart of the Upper Air North
Atlantic Ocean, 1927, Drawings: Zeppelin LZ-129

Box 39
1.
Map: Air Mail Routes of the United States and Routes of the Flying Clipper
Ships
2.
Map: Pilot Chart of the Upper Air-North Pacific Ocean
3.
Map: Dakar-Natal (S-129), U.S. Army Air Forces, Special Air Navigation
Chart
4.
North Polar Region (AP-41), U.S. Army Air Forces, Aeronautical Planning
Chart
5.
German Aero Club von Deutschland
6.
German Die Danemarkfahrt des…
7.
Prints: Zeppelin "D" type, rebuilt LZ-6, Plans: Boeing Type P-12B and
Corsair
8.
German reports, Periodicals: Engineering 1971, Mechanix Illustrated,1964
9.
Book cover: The Zeppelin in Combat, Newspaper clipping: The Graf Zeppelin,
Plans: Airships, Article: Reassessing the Airship, Newspaper: International
Freighting, Cassette: The Golden Age of the Great Rigid Airships by: Harold
G. Dick

Box 40
1.
Correspondence regarding the Zeppelin, post card photographs
2.
Airship reports
3.
Correspondence from Harold Dick
4.
L-58 and L-59 Data and Drawing
5.
L-70 Cadbury Correspondence
6.
Article: The Destruction and Salvage of the Zeppelin L-70
7.
History of the Rigid Airship
8.
Reports: Hindenburg, 1936
9.
Reports: Hindenburg, 1936-37

Box 41
1.
Correspondence and data regarding Zeppelins, 1972
2.
Correspondence and data regarding Zeppelins, 1973
3.
Correspondence and data regarding Zeppelins, 1974
4.
Correspondence and data regarding Zeppelins, 1974
5.
Correspondence and data regarding Zeppelins, 1975

Box 42
1.
Correspondence and data regarding Zeppelin, 1975
2.
Correspondence and data regarding Zeppelin, 1975
3.
Correspondence and data regarding Zeppelin, 1979
4.
Correspondence and data regarding Zeppelin, 1980
5.
Correspondence and data regarding Zeppelin, 1981
6.
Correspondence and data regarding Zeppelin,, 1981

Box 43
1.
Correspondence and data regarding Zeppelin, 1982
2.
Correspondence and data regarding Zeppelin, 1984
3.
Correspondence and data regarding Zeppelin 1988
4.
Akron related material, 1972-73
5.
Wright-Army-Airships

Box 44 and 45

Photographs, Negatives, 16 pages of slides