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0.03 "Golden Spike Ceremony" Painting by John McQuarrie design file

Historic railroad stations : a selected inventory / prepared by the National Register of Historic Places, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior

Speed, speed, speed : stories of races and chases in hot rods and jets, trains and planes, submarines and speedboats / Phyllis R. Fenner ; illustrated by William Lohse

Transcontinental Railway medal, United States, 1869

toy, locomotive

Badge, Identification, Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA)

Bendix Air Races Collection - 1948 National Air Races (Cleveland), Entry Blank, 1948

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Bendix Air Races Collection - 1948 National Air Races (Cleveland), Entry Blank, 1948

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The Bendix Corporation (1924-1983), manufacturers of devices for the automotive and aviation industries, sponsored the Bendix Trophy Race?a transcontinental speed competition for aircraft?annually from 1931-1939, then sporadically from 1946-1962. By this point in time, the Bendix Corporation?which had branched out to dominate the US market in aircraft radio and radar equipment during World War II?was producing missile and radar systems for the US military. In the 1960s Bendix was also building ground and airbourne telecommunications and telemetry systems for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Bendix Field Engineering division worked on the construction of Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch Complex 39 at the Merritt Island Launch Area (MILA) adjacent to Cape Canaveral, Florida, including the Apollo Launch Control Center, Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), and operational support equipment. Note: Please do not describe any images, photographs, or maps that appear in this project. We are only seeking transcriptions.

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This collection includes race-related materials from the Bendix Advertising and Publicity department, along with materials from other aviation events for which Bendix was a sponsor. Approximately a third of the collection relates to the corporation's activities from circa 1960 to 1983, including military and commercial avionics and communications systems, and support for the Unites States space program, particularly the construction of Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch Complex 39.

Record ID

trl-1595263218578-1595263220015-0

Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa (Engelm. & J.M. Bigelow) F.M. Knuth subsp. acanthocarpa

Goggles

Railroad The Bum: The Grave By the Whispering Pine

Locomotive, erecting, electric

Racial encounters in the multi-cultural West / edited with introductions by Gordon Morris Bakken and Brenda Farrington

Hoosac Tunnel : on what plan, in what time, at what cost, and by what means can it be finished? / reply of H. Haupt to a communication from members of the Legislature of Massachusetts of 1868

A lucky dog : Owney, U.S. Rail Mail mascot / by Dirk Wales ; illustrated by Diane Kenna

Vancouver Island railroads [by] Robert D. Turner

Oriental Dance, (painting)

Keokuk Electric Railway and Power Company Fare Token

The Grand Trunk Western Railroad : a Canadian national railway / by Patrick C. Dorin

Historic cars of the Seashore Trolley Museum, Kennebunkport, Maine

Baggage Car Model

rail chair

A concise history of the french post office from its origins to the present day Muriel Le Roux et Sébastien Richez (dir.)

U.S. rail news / United States Rail Corporation

Set up running : the life of a Pennsylvania railroad engineman, 1904-1949 / John W. Orr ; with an introduction by James D. Porterfield

Leskea polycarpa Ehrh. ex Hedw.

Bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Tourists' handbook, descriptive of Colorado, New Mexico and Utah

Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen

Official directory of express stations / American Railway Express Company

The natural history of Washington territory and Oregon : with much relating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Utah, and California between the thirty-sixth and forty-ninth parallels of latitude : being those parts of the final reports on the survey of the Northern Pacific Railroad route, relating to the natural history of the regions explored : with full catalogues and descriptions of the plants and animals collected from 1853 to 1860 / by Geo. Suckley ... and J.G. Cooper ... ; with the co-operation of Messrs. Baird ... ; insects by Dr. John L. Leconte ; mollusca by W.M. Cooper ... ; with fifty-eight plates

Tripod bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Jar (Image withheld, pending review)

Plethodon shermani

Bendix Air Races Collection - Bendix Trophy Race, 1938

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Bendix Air Races Collection - Bendix Trophy Race, 1938

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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Archives

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The Bendix Corporation (1924-1983), manufacturers of devices for the automotive and aviation industries, sponsored the Bendix Trophy Race?a transcontinental speed competition for aircraft?annually from 1931-1939, then sporadically from 1946-1962. By this point in time, the Bendix Corporation?which had branched out to dominate the US market in aircraft radio and radar equipment during World War II?was producing missile and radar systems for the US military. In the 1960s Bendix was also building ground and airbourne telecommunications and telemetry systems for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Bendix Field Engineering division worked on the construction of Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch Complex 39 at the Merritt Island Launch Area (MILA) adjacent to Cape Canaveral, Florida, including the Apollo Launch Control Center, Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), and operational support equipment. Note: Please do not describe any images, photographs, or maps that appear in this project. We are only seeking transcriptions.

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This collection includes race-related materials from the Bendix Advertising and Publicity department, along with materials from other aviation events for which Bendix was a sponsor. Approximately a third of the collection relates to the corporation's activities from circa 1960 to 1983, including military and commercial avionics and communications systems, and support for the Unites States space program, particularly the construction of Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch Complex 39.

Record ID

trl-1595263218578-1595263220248-0

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