Guide to the Ithaca Airways Records,
1927-1942

Collection Number: 3169

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
G. Solomon
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, January 2004

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Ithaca Airways records, 1927-1942.
Collection Number:
3169
Creator:
Ithaca Airways.
Quantity:
1.6 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, cancelled checks, deposit slips, notes, mortgages, cancelled stock certificates, invoices, ledger books, cashbooks, checkbooks, receipt books, bank books, a daybook, training forms, maps, notes, exams, pamphlets, an atlas, logbooks, personal papers, and other materials.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Records of Ithaca Airways, which was founded by Herbert M. Peters in Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York. It later became Ithaca Flying Service Inc.
Language:
Collection material in English

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

Ithaca Airways was founded by Herbert M. Peters in Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York. It later became Ithaca Flying Service Inc.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Records include correspondence, 1928-29, and Ithaca Airways miscellany; financial records including cancelled checks, deposit slips, notes, mortgages, cancelled stock certificates, and invoices, 1928-40, also ledger books, cashbooks, checkbooks, receipt books, and bank books for the Ithaca Airways Corporation and the Ithaca Flying Service, 1928-42, also one daybook of the Cornell Flying Club, 1935-36; pilot information including training forms, maps, notes, exams, pamphlets, an atlas, and logbooks, 1929-41; and Herbert M. Peters' personal papers including financial records and miscellany, 1927-42; and Dorothy B. Peters' records as treasurer for Girl Scout Camp Comstock 1939, and School District 16, Town of Ulysses, 1939.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Ithaca Airways.
Peters, Dorothy B.
Peters, Herbert M., d.1972.
Cornell Flying Club.
Girl Scout Camp Comstock.
Ithaca Flying Service, Inc.

Subjects:
Aeronautics.
Airlines.
Airplanes--Piloting.
Air pilots.

Places:
Ithaca (N.Y.)--Commerce.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Ithaca Airways records, #3169. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Correspondence
1928-1929
Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 1
ca. 1941
Ithaca Airways Miscellany
 Box 1 Folder 2
Financial Records
1928
Ithaca Airways, cancelled checks
 Box 1 Folder 3
1929
Ithaca Airways, cancelled checks
 Box 1 Folder 4
1930
Ithaca Airways, cancelled checks
 Box 1 Folder 5
1939
Ithaca Airways, deposit slips
 Box 1 Folder 6
1939-1940
Ithaca Flying Service, cancelled checks
 Box 1 Folder 7-8
1928-1931
Ithaca Airways, notes, mortgages, and cancelled stock certificates
 Box 1 Folder 9
1930, 1939-1940
NY Telephone, NYSEG and Mohawk Gas, invoices
 Box 1 Folder 10
1939-1940
Ithaca Airways, Gas Statiion Statements
 Box 1 Folder 11
1930
Ithaca Airways, Adding Machine Division - Morse Products, invoices
 Box 1 Folder 12
1939
Ithaca Flying Service, Air Associates Inc. invoices
 Box 1 Folder 13
1939
Cayuga Lumber Co. and Cotton and Hanlan, invoices
 Box 1 Folder 14
1939
Continental Motors Corp., invoices
 Box 1 Folder 15
1939
D.B. Stewart & Co. Inc., invoices
 Box 1 Folder 16
1939
Ithaca Flying Service, invoices and War Dept. notices
 Box 1 Folder 17
1939
Lohr & Kramer, invoices
 Box 1 Folder 18
1939
Piper Aircraft Corp., invoices
 Box 1 Folder 19
1929-1930
Ithaca Flying Service, Texaco invoices
 Box 1 Folder 20
1939
Warner Aircraft Corp., invoices
 Box 1 Folder 21
1939
Invoices
 Box 1 Folder 22-23
1939-1940
Ithaca Airways, misc. bills and receipts
 Box 1 Folder 24
Ithaca Flying Service, financial statements
 Box 1 Folder 25
1928-1930
Ithaca Airways, tax reports
 Box 1 Folder 26
1929-1934
Ithaca Flying Service, financial book
 Box 1 Folder 27
1935-1936
Ledger book with names and sum pd. (alphabetical)
 Box 2 Volume 1
1935-1936
Daybook - property of Cornell Flying Club, with loose pages listing enrollment
 Box 2 Volume 2
1934-1935
Ledger - accounts book with names and sums pd.
 Box 2 Volume 3
1936-1937
Cashbook - labelled charge - alphabetical names and sum pd.
 Box 2 Volume 4
1936-1938
Cashbook - labelled Robinson, Kellogg and Storage - listing parts, labor, and sums
 Box 2 Volume 5
1939-1941
Journal - labelled Daybook with expenses and sums
 Box 2 Volume 6
Sept. 18, 1934
Genesee Composition Book
 Box 3 Volume 1
1936-1938
Check book stubs - H.M. Peters
 Box 3 Volume 2
1938-1940
Check book stubs - H.M. Peters
 Box 3 Volume 3
1940
Check book stubs - H.M. Peters
 Box 3 Volume 4
1928-1930
Receipt book
 Box 3 Volume 5
1928
Receipt book
 Box 3 Volume 6
1935-1937
Bank book for Ithaca Flying Service, Tompkins Co. Trust Co.
 Box 3 Volume 7
1928
Check book
 Box 3 Volume 8
1928-1929
Check book
 Box 3 Volume 9
1935
Check book
 Box 3 Volume 10
1941
Check book
 Box 3 Volume 11-13
1942
Check book
 Box 3 Volume 14
Pilot Information
Department of Commerce Civil Aeronautics Admin. Civilian Pilot Training forms: 589 A-D, 527 A-D
 Box 4
ca. 1935
Dept. of Commerce information including maps and notes
 Box 4 Folder 1
1 Pilot kit
 Box 4
Complete Exam, Questions and Answers, Civil Air Regulations for Student and Private Pilots
 Box 4 Volume 1
Elementary Aerodynamics, K.D. Wood
 Box 4 Volume 2
Notes on the Interpretation of Aeroplane Photographs
 Box 4 Volume 3
Notes on the Interpretation of Aeroplane Photographs, illustrations to accompany
 Box 4 Volume 4
U.S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla., Flight School Training
 Box 4 Volume 5
Dept. of Commerce, Violation Report forms
 Box 4 Volume 6
1933-1934
Aviation Atlas
 Box 4 Volume 7
Pilot log books, maps, and pamphlets
1929-1941
14 log books
 Box 5
1 aeronautical maps
 Box 5
Aeronautical pamphlets
 Box 5
1935-1936
Copy of The New Cadet System of Ground School Training, 1935-1936 edition
 Box 5
Herbert M. Peters family, personal papers
1927-1940
Pilot's license and mechanic's license, neg. and pos.
 Box 6 Folder 1
H.M. Peters Miscellany
 Box 6 Folder 2
1940-1942
Misc. financial records
 Box 6 Folder 3
1939-1941
Check book
 Box 6 Folder 4
1942
Check book
 Box 6 Folder 5
Girl Scout Camp Comstock financial records, Dorothy B. Peters, treasurer, 1939
1939
First National Bank Statements
 Box 6 Folder 6
1939
Inventories
 Box 6 Folder 7
1939
Cayuga Motor Corp. invoices
 Box 6 Folder 8
1939
Food invoices
 Box 6 Folder 9
1939
Invoices
 Box 6 Folder 10-11
1939-1940
Menus
 Box 6 Folder 12
Accounts, menus
 Box 6 Folder 13
1939
Cancelled check
 Box 6 Folder 14
School District #16, Town of Ulysses, D.B. Peters
1940
Bank statements
 Box 6 Folder 15
1939-1941
Collector's receipts
 Box 6 Folder 16