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University of Southern California Library of Aeronautical History George T. Cussen collection on aviation
Collection
Identifier: 0053
Abstract
The collection consists of Cussen's personal scrapbook pages, books and photographs pertaining to the commercial aeronautic industry from the 1930s to the 1950s, and a collection of World War I and World War II war effort posters and maps. George Cussen worked the Santa Fe Railway for eight years before a brief stint at Maddux Air Lines in 1929. From 1932 to 1940, he worked for Transcontinental and Western Airlines as a traffic manager, alternating between Los Angeles and San Francisco...
Dates:
1918 - 1963
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
USC Library of Aeronautical History C. S. James collection on aviation
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0056
Abstract
Photographs, correspondence, ephemera pertaining to the history of Western Air Lines (Western Air Express). Charles N. James (a.k.a. James James, Jimmy James) flew the first Air mail run with Fred Kelly from Salt Lake to LA in seven hours, in 1926. He was a pilot for Western Air Express and later Vice-President in charge of operations at Western Airlines (1938-1950). He then became Security Manager with Bendix West Coast Division.
Dates:
1918 - 1957
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
USC Library of Aeronautical History Earl G. Reed collection on aviation
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0062
Abstract
Photographs of aviators and airplanes, pre-1935.
Dates:
pre-1935
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
USC Library of Aeronautical History Gilbert L. Givven collection on aviation
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0061
Abstract
Gilbert Givvin was the secretary of Harris Hanshue, President of Western Air Express (TWA Inc.). This collection contains material pertaining to the investigation of Air Mail and Ocean Mail Contracts, by a Special Committee of the US Senate (1934). MacCracken (attorney for a number of large airlines, Commerce Dept. Aeronautics Chief under Hoover Admininstration), Brittin, Hanshue and Givvin were held on charges of contempt in the Mail Inquiry, for the destruction of papers, files,...
Dates:
circa 1934
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections