Ithaca Airways records, 1927-1942.
Collection Number: 3169
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Ithaca Airways records, 1927-1942.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
3169
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.
Creator:
Ithaca Airways
Quanitities:
1.6 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Ithaca Airways was founded by Herbert M. Peters in Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York.
It later became Ithaca Flying Service Inc.
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.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Ithaca Airways records, #3169. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Peters, Dorothy B.
Peters, Herbert M., -1972.
Ithaca Airways
Ithaca Flying Service, Inc
Cornell Flying Club
Girl Scout Camp Comstock
Subjects:
Air pilots.
Airplanes -- Piloting.
Air lines.
Aeronautics.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Correspondence
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence
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1928-1929 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Ithaca Airways Miscellany
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1941 |
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Financial Records
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Ithaca Airways, cancelled checks
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1928 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Ithaca Airways, cancelled checks
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1929 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Ithaca Airways, cancelled checks
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1930 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Ithaca Airways, deposit slips
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1939 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7-8 |
Ithaca Flying Service, cancelled checks
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1939-1940 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Ithaca Airways, notes, mortgages, and cancelled stock certificates
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1928-1931 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
NY Telephone, NYSEG and Mohawk Gas, invoices
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1930, 1939-1940 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Ithaca Airways, Gas Statiion Statements
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1939-1940 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Ithaca Airways, Adding Machine Division - Morse Products, invoices
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1930 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Ithaca Flying Service, Air Associates Inc. invoices
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1939 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Cayuga Lumber Co. and Cotton and Hanlan, invoices
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1939 |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Continental Motors Corp., invoices
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1939 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
D.B. Stewart & Co. Inc., invoices
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1939 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Ithaca Flying Service, invoices and War Dept. notices
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1939 |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Lohr & Kramer, invoices
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1939 |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Piper Aircraft Corp., invoices
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1939 |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Ithaca Flying Service, Texaco invoices
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1929-1930 |
| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Warner Aircraft Corp., invoices
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1939 |
| Box 1 | Folder 22-23 |
Invoices
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1939 |
| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Ithaca Airways, misc. bills and receipts
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1939-1940 |
| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Ithaca Flying Service, financial statements
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| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Ithaca Airways, tax reports
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1928-1930 |
| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Ithaca Flying Service, financial book
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1929-1934 |
| Box 2 | Volume 1 |
Ledger book with names and sum pd. (alphabetical)
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1935-1936 |
| Box 2 | Volume 2 |
Daybook - property of Cornell Flying Club, with loose pages listing enrollment
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1935-1936 |
| Box 2 | Volume 3 |
Ledger - accounts book with names and sums pd.
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1934-1935 |
| Box 2 | Volume 4 |
Cashbook - labelled charge - alphabetical names and sum pd.
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1936-1937 |
| Box 2 | Volume 5 |
Cashbook - labelled Robinson, Kellogg and Storage - listing parts, labor, and sums
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1936-1938 |
| Box 2 | Volume 6 |
Journal - labelled Daybook with expenses and sums
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1939-1941 |
| Box 3 | Volume 1 |
Genesee Composition Book
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Sept. 18, 1934 |
| Box 3 | Volume 2 |
Check book stubs - H.M. Peters
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1936-1938 |
| Box 3 | Volume 3 |
Check book stubs - H.M. Peters
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1938-1940 |
| Box 3 | Volume 4 |
Check book stubs - H.M. Peters
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1940 |
| Box 3 | Volume 5 |
Receipt book
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1928-1930 |
| Box 3 | Volume 6 |
Receipt book
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1928 |
| Box 3 | Volume 7 |
Bank book for Ithaca Flying Service, Tompkins Co. Trust Co.
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1935-1937 |
| Box 3 | Volume 8 |
Check book
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1928 |
| Box 3 | Volume 9 |
Check book
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1928-1929 |
| Box 3 | Volume 10 |
Check book
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1935 |
| Box 3 | Volume 11-13 |
Check book
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1941 |
| Box 3 | Volume 14 |
Check book
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1942 |
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Pilot Information
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| Box 4 |
Department of Commerce Civil Aeronautics Admin. Civilian Pilot Training forms: 589
A-D, 527 A-D
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| Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Dept. of Commerce information including maps and notes
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1935 |
| Box 4 |
1 Pilot kit
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| Box 4 | Volume 1 |
Complete Exam, Questions and Answers, Civil Air Regulations for Student and Private
Pilots
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| Box 4 | Volume 2 |
Elementary Aerodynamics, K.D. Wood
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| Box 4 | Volume 3 |
Notes on the Interpretation of Aeroplane Photographs
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| Box 4 | Volume 4 |
Notes on the Interpretation of Aeroplane Photographs, illustrations to accompany
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| Box 4 | Volume 5 |
U.S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla., Flight School Training
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| Box 4 | Volume 6 |
Dept. of Commerce, Violation Report forms
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| Box 4 | Volume 7 |
Aviation Atlas
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1933-1934 |
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Pilot log books, maps, and pamphlets
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| Box 5 |
14 log books
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1929-1941 | |
| Box 5 |
1 aeronautical maps
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| Box 5 |
Aeronautical pamphlets
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| Box 5 |
Copy of The New Cadet System of Ground School Training, 1935-1936 edition
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1935-1936 | |
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Herbert M. Peters family, personal papers
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| Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Pilot's license and mechanic's license, neg. and pos.
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1927-1940 |
| Box 6 | Folder 2 |
H.M. Peters Miscellany
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| Box 6 | Folder 3 |
Misc. financial records
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1940-1942 |
| Box 6 | Folder 4 |
Check book
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1939-1941 |
| Box 6 | Folder 5 |
Check book
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1942 |
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Girl Scout Camp Comstock financial records, Dorothy B. Peters, treasurer, 1939
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| Box 6 | Folder 6 |
First National Bank Statements
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1939 |
| Box 6 | Folder 7 |
Inventories
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1939 |
| Box 6 | Folder 8 |
Cayuga Motor Corp. invoices
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1939 |
| Box 6 | Folder 9 |
Food invoices
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1939 |
| Box 6 | Folder 10-11 |
Invoices
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1939 |
| Box 6 | Folder 12 |
Menus
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1939-1940 |
| Box 6 | Folder 13 |
Accounts, menus
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| Box 6 | Folder 14 |
Cancelled check
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1939 |
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School District #16, Town of Ulysses, D.B. Peters
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| Box 6 | Folder 15 |
Bank statements
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1940 |
| Box 6 | Folder 16 |
Collector's receipts
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1939-1941 |