Results for "Tuskegee Airmen"
An Airborne Adventure: Photographing a Tuskegee Airmen Plane
- Date: January 19, 2012
- Description: Learn about the Smithsonian Institution Archive photographer, Michael Barnes, and his experience photographing Tuskegee Airmen and one of their original training planes.
- Webpage
Louis R. Purnell
- Date: August 23, 2016
- Description: A twentieth century Renaissance man, Louis R. Purnell lived a remarkable life. His career began in the skies above Italy and Germany, where he flew 88 combat missions as an original member of the Tuskegee Airmen. After the war, while working at the National Museum of Natural History, he traveled the world’s oceans collecting marine specimens, taught himself geology and
Louis R. Purnell in Airman Uniform
- Date: c. 1942
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
Louis R. Purnell in his United States Air Force Uniform
- Date: c. 1942
- Creator: Polk's Studio, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama
- Creator: Polk's Studio, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama
Louis R. Purnell, Jr., Curator of Astronautics, in Front of Airplane at NASM
- Date: c. 1980s
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 18-172, National Air and Space Museum (U.S.) Aeronautics Division, Exhibition Records, 1978-2010
- Date: 1978 1978-2010
- Creator: National Air and Space Museum. Aeronautics Division
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Webpage
Michael Barnes
- Date: August 25, 2016
- Description: An employee of the Smithsonian since 1975, Michael Barnes is one of a select group of photographers with the responsibility of documenting the history of the Smithsonian.1 Pragmatic and passionate about photography, he worked his way up from the Smithsonian’s print shop and taught himself the art of taking pictures. An employee of the Smithsonian since 1975, Michael Barnes is
- Finding Aid
SIA RU009578, Louis R. Purnell Oral History Interviews, 1993-1994
- Date: 1993 1993-1994
- Creator: Purnell, Louis R., interviewee
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Louis Purnell Named Curator at National Air and Space Museum 1980
- Date: 1980
Couple Enjoys "Black Wings" exhibit, Anacostia Museum
- Date: 1967
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
"Black Wings" Exhibit Opens at National Air and Space Museum 09/1982
- Date: September 1982
National Portrait Gallery - Portrait of Pilot William Ayers Campbell; Presentation of John L. Lewis Bust
- Date: 1971 June 16, 1971
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Photographic Services Division
