MG-281

Samuel W. Kuhnert Collection

AERIAL VIEWS (PRINTS), [ca. 1925 - 1974, & undated]. (5 boxes)

box 1 

"Adams County Apple Blossoms, 1929" (4 prints)
Amity Hall, [1933?] (2 prints)
Amity Hall, Flood, 1936 (7 prints)
Bloomsburg, Magee Carpet Company, [undated] (1 print)
Brookville, 1938 (11 prints)
Camp Hill, "Airplane View of," [undated] (9 prints)
"Camp Hill, Bellvue and Beverly Park, April 25, 1942" (1 print)
"Camp Hill, Beverly Park, June 13, 1940" [under construction] (11 prints)
"Camp Hill Corners, 1938" (1 print)
"Camp Hill, Market and 32nd Sts., 1932" (2 prints)
"Camp Hill, Rolling Green Cemetery, [undated]" (2 prints)
"Camp Hill, Shimmel-Binder Development, March 21, 1939" (1 print)
Camp Hill, L.B. Smith, [undated] (2 prints)
Camp Hill, West Shore Country Club and Environs, [undated] (8 prints)
Camp Hill, 5500 ft., 1937 (2 prints)
Carlisle Air Meet, [undated] (11 prints)
Carlisle, "Old Carlisle Airfield," [ca. 1930] (2 prints)
"Carlisle Aerial, 1931" (6 prints)
"Carlisle Airport, July 24, 1937 (4 prints)
Chambersburg, Penn Hall College, [ca. 1935] (3 prints)
Clark's Valley, [undated] (3 prints)
Clark's Ferry, Flood, 1936 (1 print)
Coatesville Boiler Works, [undated] (2 prints)
Cumberland County Poor Home (Stiles Mansion), July 1933 (2 prints)
Dauphin and River, [ca. 1935] (8 prints)
Dauphin, "Latest Dauphin Aerial View, 1920" (4 prints)
Dauphin, snow, [undated] (1 print)
Duncannon, [ca. 1935] (3 prints)
Elizabethtown and Elizabettown College, [undated] (19 prints)
Emmitsburg, MD, St. Joseph's College, [undated] (6 prints)
Enola Rail Yards, [undated] (6 prints)
Enola - Summerdale, [undated] (11 prints)
Fort Hunter, Flood, 1936 (1 print)
Gettysburg and Airport, 1929 (6 prints)
Gettysburg, different locations, airport, 1929 (6 prints)
Gettysburg College, 1934 (2 prints)
Gettysburg plates of battlefield, airport, 1929 (9 prints)
"Gettysburg, Mountain Trip, 1929" (9 prints)
"Gettysburg, Grade #1, 1928" (4 prints)
"Gettysburg Reunion, July 2, 1938" (4 prints)

box 2

"Good Hope Aerials," [undated] (10 prints)
"Good Hope, 1937" (5 prints)
"Hagerstown, Md., Airport and Pangborn Factory, 1928" (9 prints)
"Halifax, Pilot Philips, 1930" (6 prints)
Halifax, Charlie Baker Farm [undated] (13 prints)
"Hanover, Pa., Shoe Farm Track; Gettysburg Airport, May 18, 1929" (11 prints)
"Hanover Aerial, 1933" (4 prints)
Harrisburg:
"Aerial of Capitol, Cammy Vinet, Pilot" (7 prints)
"From top of [Harrisburg] Hotel" (4 prints)
"Capitol, 3500 ft., 1937" (1 print)
"Capitol Complex, F.D. Roosevelt's Campaign Speech, October 29, 1936" (9 prints)
Capitol, Governor Pinchot Inaugural Ceremonies, January 1931" (3 prints)
Capitol, Governor Earle Inaugural Parade, January 15, 1935 (12 prints)
"Capitol Complex and City Looking South," [ca, 1930] (4 prints)
Capitol Complex, [ca. 1970] (1 print)
Capitol Complex, [ca. 1930] (4 prints)
Capitol Complex, Education Building Under Construction, [ca. 1929] (2 prints)
Capitol Complex and Education Building, [ca. 1930] (6 prints)
Capitol Complex, South Office and Education Building, [ca. 1929] (5 prints)
City Island, [ca. 1930] (2 prints)
City Island, [ca. 1935] (3 prints)
City Island (2 prints)
City Island (10 prints)
City Island Bathing Beach, 1933 (3 prints)
City Island Veterans Camp and Island, Park Formation, 1932 (15 prints)
Downtown Misc., with telephoto from Lemoyne, October 8, 1974 (7 prints)
Farm Show Building Construction (7 prints)
Farm Show Building and Environs, [ca. 1935] (26 prints)

box 3

Fink Brewery, Fourth and Forster, [ca. 1930] (8 prints)
Flood - City Island (7 prints)
Flood - Eleventh and Market Sts. (4 prints)
Flood - Front Street (3 prints)
Flood - Steel Foundries (10 prints)
Front Street (2 prints)
Front Street, Kipona Day, 1932 (1 print)
"Harrisburg, [Farmer's Market], Pilot Eaton, June 4, 1929" (1 print)
"Harrisburger Hotel, Third and Walnut, etc., 1930 and later" (5 prints)
Harrisburg Academy, 1932 (1 print)
Harrisburg and Capitol Complex, [ca. 1930] (1 print)
Harrisburg Capitol Complex in color, [ca. 1970] (1 print)
"Ice Jam in the Susquehanna River," [ca. 1935] (3 prints)
"Lower Harrisburg," [ca. 1935] (2 prints)
Market Square, [ca. 1930] (2 prints)
"Miscellaneous of City, 5 x 7, [Midtown Section], 1929" (1 print)
Northwest Office Building, Before and After Construction, [ca. 1935] (2 prints)
"Penbrook, 1937" (2 prints)
Penn-Harris Airport, Army Maneuvers, 1932 (2 prints)
Penn-Harris Airport (1 print)
"Penn-Harris" (1 print)
"Penn-Harris Airport - Pat Brooke, Motorcycle Races, August 6, 1933" (1 print)
"Reservoir Park and Hill" (4 prints)
"Snow, [Capitol Complex], 1929" (2 prints)
State Hospital (3 prints)
"State Hospital, 1937" (4 prints)
"Thirteenth and Derry Streets, June 1933" (1 print)
"State Capitol Choice" [Construction of Labor and Industry Building] (11 prints)
"Autogyro View of Zembo Temple, 1931 (11 prints)
Hershey Factory and Hotel, [ca. 1935] (7 prints)
Hershey Hotel and Environs, 1930 (2 prints)
"Highspire, Flood, 1936" (11 prints)
Hummelstown (3 prints)
Hummelstown, 1931 (5 prints)
Indiantown Gap, July 1934 (12 prints)
Indiantown Gap, National Guard Encampment, 1937 (10 prints)
Indiantown Gap, National Guard Encampment, 1939 (1 print)
"Lancaster Airport" (1 print)
"Lancaster Airport about 1936, at Walter Kuhnert Balloon Show" (7 prints)
"Lancaster Aerial, 1930" (1 print)
"Lancaster, Armstrong Aerial, 1931 (1 print)
"City of Lancaster, 1929" (5 prints)
Lebanon "Explosion, September 23, 1935, 10 P.M." (2 prints)
Lebanon, "Sunset Market, 1937" (1 print)
Lebanon, [ca. 1930 (4 prints)
Lebanon, "Concentrator, Bethlehem Steel Co." (2 prints)
"Lemoyne, 7,000 ft., ca. 1930" (3 prints)
"Lemoyne, 1932" (1 print)
"Lemoyne, George Riley, Pilot, 1937" (3 prints)
"Lemoyne Flying Field," [ca. 1930 (1 print)
"Lemoyne Flying Field - Susquehanna Airport, Fred Nelson, Pilot, 1929 (4 prints)
Lemoyne (3 prints)
Lewisburg, Federal Prison and Bucknell College (8 prints)
"Lewistown, Mountains, 1939" (10 prints)
"Liverpool - Charlie Hoak - Lawsuit" (4 prints)
"Liverpool, Flood, Lovie Metzger's Farm, 1938" (2 prints)
"Loyalsock Valley, Loyalsock Game Farm" (7 prints)

box 4

"Marysville, 1937" (16 prints)
Mechanicsburg, Copenhaver Nurseries (3 prints)
Mechanicsburg, Willow Mill Park, etc., Betz, 1931" (2 prints)
"Mechanicsburg, Williams Grove Park and Speedway, Frank Wilson, Pilot, August 11, 1940" (10 prints)
"Mechanicsburg, William Grove Speedway, September 24, 1939" (1 print)
Middletown (3 prints)
"Middletown, Coatesville Boiler Works" (3 prints)
"Middletown Camp, July 1934" (9 prints)
Milroy, Kishaquillas Park (1 print)
Milton, 1933 (8 prints)
"Mountain Dam Project" [De Hart Dam] (2 prints)
"Mount Gretna P.N.G. Camp, August 1933 - in the Autogyro, Cammy Vinet, Pilot" (7 prints)
"Mount Gretna Army Encampment, July 1934" (2 prints)
Mount Pleasant, [ca. 1930] (2 prints)
"Mount Zion - Upstate Road - Aunt Lou" (4 prints)
Mount Zion Church (11 prints)
New Berlin, 1933 (3 prints)
"New Bloomfield - Blain - Landisburg Flight, K-5 Camera" (18 prints)
New Cumberland:
--Harrisburg Airport, [ca. 1925] (8 prints)
--Harrisburg Airport, [ca. 1933] (4 prints)
--"Harrisburg Airport Dedication, Saturday 1930" (2 prints)
--"Harrisburg Airport, 1938" (4 prints)
--Harrisburg Airport, [ca. 1950] (1 print)
New Kingston, 1933 (3 prints)
Newport, August 24, 1934 (5 prints)
New York, Empire State Building (1 print)
Niagara Falls, New York, [ca. 1935] (4 prints)
"Pennsylvania Turnpike, August 9, 1940, Nelson, Pilot" showing Tunnel Construction (41 prints)
Perdix, [ca. 1930] (3 prints)
Powell's Valley and Pine Acres, June 1, 1948 (13 prints)
Rockville, U.S. 322 Construction (13 prints)
"Rockville, 1933" (5 prints)
Rockville, Flood, 1936 (12 prints)
Royal Gorge, Colorado (1 print)
"Safe Harbor Aerial [construction of dam],1931" (2 prints)
"Selinsgrove, 1934" (9 prints)
"Selinsgrove, 3,000 ft., 1937" (6 prints)
Shippensburg, [ca. 1930] (1 print)
"Shiremanstown, 1929" (8 prints)
"State College, Rockview, Penitentiary and Penn State Campus," [ca. 1930] (14 prints)

box 5

Steelton, [undated] (4 prints)
"Steelton - Highspire - Middletown Flood, 1936" (14 prints)
Summerdale, 1932 (7 prints)
Sunbury, Country Club and Golf Course, 1934 (2 prints)
Sunbury Airport, [ca. 1930] (3 prints)
Sunbury Airport, [undated] (2 prints)
Sunbury and Airport, Flood, 1936 (15 prints)
Sunbury, F.D. Roosevelt's Whistle Stop Campaign, 1936 (15 prints)
Washington, D.C., [undated] (4 prints)
Wellsville, [ca. 1930] (3 prints)
Wellsville, Young Stone Church, 1932 (3 prints)
West Fairview, Flood, 1936 (2 prints)
Williamsport, [ca. 1935] (6 prints)
Wormleysburg, "21 Ft. Flood," 1936 (2 prints)
York, [including Hospital], 1934 (9 prints)
York, Flood, August 1933 (12 prints)
York and York Fair, 1936 (21 prints)
York, Flood, 1937 (2 prints)
"York Hospital, 1948" (1 print)
York, Water Works, Shorty Nelson, Pilot, S.W.K. and R.E.K. Camera Men, [undated]" (1 print)

MG-281

Samuel W. Kuhnert Collection

PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVES, PRINTED MATERIALS, AND CORRESPONDENCE, [ca. 1919-1974]. (7 boxes)

box 1

A. Aviation

Aircraft
1.1 Walter G. Kuhnert balloon (1 folder)
1.2 B-17 bomber (1 folder)
1.3 Dirigibles (1 folder)
1.4a First airplane used by Kuhnert for aerial photography (1 folder)
1.4b Other Kuhnert airplanes and diagrams (1 folder)
1.5 Parachute jumping (1 folder)
1.7 Wiley Post's airplane, the "Winnie Mae" (1 folder)
1.8 Airplanes, miscellaneous (1 folder)

box 1

Airports and Airways
2.1 Bloomsburg Airport / Columbia Airways (1 folder)
2.2 Cumberland Valley Flying Service, New Kensington, 1929 (1 folder)
2.3 Hagerstown, MD Airport and Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company, manufacturer of the Challenger airplane (1 folder)
2.4 Harrisburg Airport, New Cumberland (1 folder)
2.5 Penn-Harris Airport (Harrisburg)/Beckley College of Aviation (1 folder)
2.6 Sunbury Airport (1 folder)
2.7 Airports, miscellaneous (1 folder)

box 1

B. Local Scenes, Aerial and Ground Views
1.0 Gettysburg (1 folder)
2.1 Harrisburg, Capitol Complex (1 folder)
2.2 Harrisburg, Fink Brewery (1 folder)
2.3 Harrisburg, Farm Show Building (1 folder)
2.4 Harrisburg, 1936 Flood(1 folder)

box 2

B. Local Scenes, Aerial and Ground Views
Harrisburg, miscellaneous views (2 folders)
3.0 Hummelstown and Hershey (1 folder)
4.0 Lancaster (1 folder)
5.0 Lebanon (1 folder)
6.1 Dauphin, Pennsylvania Canal, Rockville (1 folder)
6.2 Duncannon (1 folder)
6.3 Enola and Summerdale (1 folder)
6.4 New Bloomfield (Blain-Landis flight, takenon K-5 camera) (1 folder)
C. Gruesome Subjects
1. Bodies and murders (1 folder)
2. Disasters and Accidents: car, train, airplane and fire (1 folder)

box 3

C. Gruesome Subjects
3. Examinations of bodies and injuries (1 folder)
4. Hangings (incl. last hanging in Dauphin County) (1 folder)
5. Harry Ganster Murder, 1924 (images by Marysville photographer, one-time assistant of Kuhnert)
5.1 Before murder (1 folder)
5.2 Murder and funeral
6. Hospital scenes, surgery, x-rays (1 folder)
D. People
1. Johnnie Abiuso, one of Kuhnert's closest friends and flying partner (1 folder)
2. Rev. E.J. Rutman, radio preacher, (Kuhnert was part of singing group) (1 folder)
3. People, incl. such notables as Presidents McKinley, Hoover, and FDR; Charles A. Lindbergh; Amelia Earhart; and a young future Governor David A. Lawrence (in group with FDR) (1 folder)
4. People, miscellaneous
E. Science and Technology
1. Airplane engines and machinery (1 folder)
2. Camera equipment, including Kuhnert and other photographers (1 folder)
3. Watching and photographing an eclipse (1 folder)
4. Outer space photographs (1 folder)
F. Commerce and Transportation
1. Advertisements, posters, logos, incl. old Zenith radio advertisement (1 folder)
2. Forms of transportation: cable cars, motorboat, race car, farm tractor, train (1 folder)
G. Personal Kuhnert Material
1. Photographs of Kuhnert and family (1 folder)
2. S.W. Kuhnert Photographic Studio advertisements (1 folder)
3. Kuhnert as guest of honor at Keystonian and Silver Wings Dinners, 1969-1970 (1 folder)
H. Other Subjects
1. War scenes, incl. soldiers, headlines, dead bodies (1 folder)
2. "Frank of Sunny Lawn" - champion dog (1 folder)
3. Nature scenes: animals, flowers, farmland, Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, sky and lightening (1 folder)
4. Miscellaneous (1 folder)

carton 4

Oversize photographs relating to above subjects and other items too large to box (1 carton)

box 5

Printed matter relating to photographic subjects
A-1.1 Walter G. Kuhnert balloon (1 envelope)
A-1.2 B-17 bomber (1 envelope)
A-1.4 Kuhnert's airplanes (1 envelope)
A-1.5 Parachute jumping (1 envelope)
A-1.8 Airplanes, miscellaneous (1 envelope)
A-2.3 Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company (1 envelope)
A-2.4 Harrisburg Airport (1 envelope)
A-2.5 Penn-Harris Airport (1 envelope)
A-2.7 Sunbury Airport (1 envelope)
B-2 Harrisburg (2 envelopes)
B-8 West Shore (1 envelope)
B Printed aerial views, international (1 envelope)
C-2 Disasters and accidents (1 envelope)
C-5 Harry Ganster murder (1 envelope)
C-6 Hospital scenes (1 envelope)
D-2 Rev. E.J. Rutman, radio (1 envelope)
D-3 People, notables (1 envelope)
D-4 People, miscellaneous (1 envelope)
E-2 Camera equipment (1 envelope)
G-1 Clippings on Kuhnert and family (1 envelope)
H-1 War scenes (1 envelope)
H-2 "Frank of Sunny Lawn" (1 envelope)
H-3 Nature scenes
Kuhnert's studio and business papers (2 folders)
Correspondence, 1923-1974 (1 folder)
Postcards (1 folder)

MG-281

Samuel W. Kuhnert Collection

PHOTOGRAPHIC DUPLICATES, [ca. 1919-1974]. (1 carton)

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Assorted Duplicate Photographs [ca. 1919-1974] (1 carton)

MG-281

Samuel W. Kuhnert Collection

MOTION PICTURE FILMS, [ca. 1930-1940]. (1 carton)

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Assorted 16mm motion picture films, [ca. 1930-1940] (1 carton)

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MG-281

Samuel W. Kuhnert Collection

BOOKS, MANUALS AND MAGAZINES, [ca. 1912-1976]. (1 carton)

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Assorted books, manuals and magazines, [ca. 1912-1976] (1 carton)

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