| | Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | TRW Inc. Photographs
| | | | Creator: | TRW, Inc. | | | | Dates: | 1894-1960 | | | | Abstract: | TRW, Inc. was established in 1900, in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Cleveland Cap Screw Company. It began producing automotive parts and underwent several reorganizations, becoming the Electric Welding Products Company (1908), the Steel Products Company (1915), and Thompson Products Inc. (1926). It expanded to include branch plants and the production of aircraft parts, and fostered a company union, the Automotive and Aircraft Workers Alliance (later the Aircraft Workers Alliance). It grew during World War II due to defense contracts. After the war it entered the jet and aerospace industries. It merged in 1958 with Ramo Wooldridge Corporation to become TRW Inc. Outside activities include the National Air Races and the Crawford Auto-Aviation Collection of the Western Reserve Historical Society. The collection consists of individual and group portraits, including Charles Hubbell, Samuel L. Mather, Thomas E. Dewey, Henry Ford, Edsel Ford, Henry Ford II, Frederick C. Crawford, Gene Autry, and other employees and associates of TRW Inc. Subjects of photographs include Thompson Aircraft Products Company, trade shows, Garrison Machine Works, the Frederick C. Crawford home, Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum, Ford Motor Company the TRW administration buildings and plants, a Thompson Products press binder, Thompson Products family day (1949), and the crew of the "Memphis Belle." | | | | Call #: | PG 194 | | | | Extent: | 1.20 linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Crawford, Frederick C., 1891- -- Photograph collections. | TRW Inc. -- Photograph collections. | Automobile supplies industry -- United States -- Photographs. | Aircraft supplies industry -- United States -- Photographs. | Aircraft industry -- United States -- Photographs. | Aerospace industries -- Photographs. | Automobile industry workers -- United States -- Photographs. | Aircraft industry workers -- United States -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | TRW Inc. Photographs, Series II
| | | | Creator: | TRW, Inc. | | | | Dates: | 1928-1958 | | | | Abstract: | TRW, Inc. was established in 1900, in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Cleveland Cap Screw Company. It began producing automotive parts and underwent several reorganizations, becoming the Electric Welding Products Company (1908), the Steel Products Company (1915), and Thompson Products Inc. (1926). It expanded to include branch plants and the production of aircraft parts, and fostered a company union, the Automotive and Aircraft Workers Alliance (later the Aircraft Workers Alliance). It grew during World War II due to defense contracts. After the war it entered the jet and aerospace industries. It merged in 1958 with Ramo Wooldridge Corporation to become TRW Inc. Outside activities include the National Air Races and the Crawford Auto-Aviation Collection of the Western Reserve Historical Society. The collection consists of photographs that relate primarily to TRW's predecessor company, Thompson Products, but views from Ramo Wooldridge and TRW are also included. Consists of individual and group portraits of company personnel and management, and views of interior and exterior plant buildings in Cleveland and Euclid, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Bell, California; St. Louis, Missouri; and St. Catharines, Ontario. Product photographs include automotive valves, pistons, generators, fuel pumps, jet engine parts, and electronic and industrial equipment. Product ads include company logos, advertisements for trade shows, parts stores and machine shops; as well as individual products and displays of manuals and catalogs. Portraits of management figures include Frederick C. Crawford, Tom O. Duggan, and J. L. Coolidge, and photographs of workers in both work and social settings are also included. | | | | Call #: | PG 305 | | | | Extent: | 1.00 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Crawford, Frederick C., 1891- -- Photograph collections. | TRW Inc. -- Photograph collections. | Automobile supplies industry -- United States -- Photographs. | Aircraft supplies industry -- United States -- Photographs. | Aircraft industry -- United States -- Photographs. | Aerospace industries -- Photographs. | Automobile industry workers -- United States -- Photographs. | Aircraft industry workers -- United States -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | Thompson Products Aviation Photographs, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Thompson Products | | | | Dates: | 1903-1947 | | | | Abstract: | Thompson Products Inc. was established in 1900, in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Cleveland Cap Screw Company. It began producing automotive parts and underwent several reorganizations, becoming the Electric Welding Products Company (1908), the Steel Products Company (1915), and Thompson Products Inc. (1926). It expanded to include branch plants and the production of aircraft parts, and fostered a company union, the Automotive and Aircraft Workers Alliance (later the Aircraft Workers Alliance). It grew during World War II due to defense contracts. After the war it entered the jet and aerospace industries. It merged in 1958 with Ramo Wooldridge Corporation to become TRW Inc. Outside activities include the National Air Races and the Crawford Auto-Aviation Collection of the Western Reserve Historical Society. The collection consists of views of aircraft, personalities, famous flights, and miscellaneous images documenting aviation history in the first half of the 20th century. The images were acquired by Thompson Products from the Dearborn Library-Henry Ford Museum and were used as a supplement to Thompson Products' existing aviation photographic reference library. Included are numerous images of early Wright and Curtiss aircraft, as well as World War I aircraft. The collection also contains many images of aircraft and equipment representing the rapid advances made in aviation technology during the inter-war years. | | | | Call #: | PG 445 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Thompson Products, Inc. -- Photograph collections. | TRW Inc. -- Photograph collections. | Aircraft supplies industry -- United States -- Photographs. | Aircraft industry -- United States -- Photographs. | Airplanes -- Design and construction -- Photographs. | Aeronautics -- History -- Photographs. | Aeronautics -- Flights -- Photographs. | World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 4 | Title: | Thompson Products Aviation Photographs, Series III
| | | | Creator: | Thompson Products | | | | Dates: | 1930-1972 | | | | Abstract: | Thompson Products Inc. was established in 1900, in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Cleveland Cap Screw Company. It began producing automotive parts and underwent several reorganizations, becoming the Electric Welding Products Company (1908), the Steel Products Company (1915), and Thompson Products Inc. (1926). It expanded to include branch plants and the production of aircraft parts, and fostered a company union, the Automotive and Aircraft Workers Alliance (later the Aircraft Workers Alliance). It grew during World War II due to defense contracts. After the war it entered the jet and aerospace industries. It merged in 1958 with Ramo Wooldridge Corporation to become TRW Inc. Outside activities include the National Air Races and the Crawford Auto-Aviation Collection of the Western Reserve Historical Society. The collection consists of press releases intended to introduce new products or announce new achievements in the field of aviation and space, and includes images of aircraft, aviation, and space related subjects. These images were used by Thompson Products as a photographic reference of industry developments in aviation and space. The development of jet airframe technology between 1950 and 1965 is well represented in the collection, as well as space exploration and reusable space plane designs. | | | | Call #: | PG 446 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Thompson Products, inc. -- Photograph collections. | TRW Inc. -- Photograph collections. | Aircraft supplies industry -- United States -- Photographs. | Aircraft industry -- United States -- Photographs. | Airplanes -- Design and construction -- Photographs. | Aeronautics -- History -- Photographs. | Aerospace industries -- United States -- Photographs. | Aerospace engineering -- United States -- Photographs. | Jet engines -- Photographs. | Jet planes -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 5 | Title: | Thompson Products Aviation Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Thompson Products | | | | Dates: | 1804-1963 | | | | Abstract: | Thompson Products Inc. was established in 1900, in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Cleveland Cap Screw Company. It began producing automotive parts and underwent several reorganizations, becoming the Electric Welding Products Company (1908), the Steel Products Company (1915), and Thompson Products Inc. (1926). It expanded to include branch plants and the production of aircraft parts, and fostered a company union, the Automotive and Aircraft Workers Alliance (later the Aircraft Workers Alliance). It grew during World War II due to defense contracts. After the war it entered the jet and aerospace industries. It merged in 1958 with Ramo Wooldridge Corporation to become TRW Inc. Outside activities include the National Air Races and the Crawford Auto-Aviation Collection of the Western Reserve Historical Society. The collection consists of individual aircraft; reciprocating, jet, and rocket aviation power plants; personalities; famous flights; and miscellaneous images related to all aspects of aviation history through the mid-1960s. The collection represents the history and development of aviation airframe and power plant technology. Over 200 aircraft manufacturing types and over 100 power plant manufacturing types are represented, including numerous images of Curtiss and Wright aircraft, as well as many lesser known manufacturing types. The collection also contains many images of dirigibles, blimps, and balloons. The photographs in this collection were acquired by Thompson Products of Cleveland, Ohio from the Dearborn Library-Henry Ford Museum, the Wright Patterson Air Force Technical Museum, and from various aircraft and aviation related industries, including the Curtiss-Wright and Boeing corporations, and were used by Thompson Products as an aviation photographic reference source. | | | | Call #: | PG 444 | | | | Extent: | 4.40 linear feet (11 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Thompson Products, inc. -- Photograph collections. | TRW Inc. -- Photograph collections. | Aircraft supplies industry -- United States -- Photographs. | Aircraft industry -- United States -- Photographs. | Airplanes -- Design and construction -- Photographs. | Aeronautics -- History -- Photographs. | Aeronautics -- Flights -- Photographs. | Airships -- Photographs. | Balloons -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 6 | Title: | Charles H. Hubbell Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Hubbell, Charles | | | | Dates: | 1900-1970 | | | | Abstract: | Charles H. Hubbell (1898-1971) was a well-known aviation artist and native of Cleveland, Ohio. During World War I, he served in the Navy and was a draftsman in the design of naval aircraft. He graduated from the Cleveland School of Art in 1922, and became a commercial artist. Hubbell received his private pilots license in 1927 by exchanging aviation art with flight instructors for flying lessons. He was commissioned by Thompson Products of Cleveland to paint the winning aircraft of each year's Thompson Trophy Race. In 1937, the first Thompson Products aviation art calendar by Charles Hubbell was produced. He painted for the yearly calendar until 1969. In 1949, the Military Air Transport Service (MATS) invited Hubbell on an around the world tour. The result was the 1951 calendar featuring the aircraft and operations of MATS. Hubbell was also a consultant to the Thompson Auto-Album and Aviation Museum, and later the Crawford Auto-Aviation Collection of the Western Reserve Historical Society. The collection consists of views of aircraft, rockets, missiles, and drones; power plants; airfields and aviation-related facilities; equipment, and aviation personalities. Hubbell acquired these images for use as a reference source for his aviation artwork. | | | | Call #: | PG 457 | | | | Extent: | 3.80 linear feet (11 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Hubbell, Charles H., 1898-1971 -- Photograph collections. | TRW Inc. -- Photograph collections. | National Air Races (U.S.) -- Photograph collections. | Aeronautics -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Aircraft industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Airplane racing -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Aeronautics -- Competitions -- United States -- Photographs. | Aircraft drafting -- Photographs. | Art and industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Artists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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