Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Brooks, Arthur Raymond, 1895-1991
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- Arthur Raymond Brooks Collection
- Arthur Raymond Brooks Collection / Series 2: Personal Materials
- Date
- 1908-1987
- Archival Repository
- National Air and Space Museum Archives
- Identifier
- NASM.1989.0104, Subseries 2.3
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Arthur Raymond Brooks Collection, NASM.1989.0104, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
- Arrangement
- Diaries are arranged chronologically.
- Collection Rights
- Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.
- Scope and Contents
- In the diaries, Brooks comments on some of the major events of the time. As examples, diary entries for 1917-18, the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s mention World War I combat, Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight to Paris, the Great Depression, the progress of World War II, the Apollo lunar missions, the Watergate scandal and the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion respectively. Entries also discuss very personal as well as mundane matters between Brooks, Ruth, their son Peter and other family members.
- Collection Restrictions
- No restrictions on access
- Record ID
- ebl-1503512016001-1503512016036-8
