Collection of scanned digital material documenting the life and career of Colonel William Haydock Fillmore (1893-1966), a pilot, barnstormer, and member of the United States Air Force. Included are 581 images related to early aviation (ca.1910-1960s), the Fillmore Flying Service in Oakland, California (ca.1925-1939), Fillmore's military career, family life, and his the farm named Chosumneda in Edgecombe County, North Carolina.
Colonel William Haydock Fillmore (1893-1966) was married to Martina Van Riswick Carr (1904-1972), the daughter of Elias Carr, Jr., of Edgecombe Co., N.C. Fillmore was very active in early aviation in the Oakland, California, area. He founded and ran the Fillmore Flying Service at the Oakland Airport in the late 1920s and the 1930s, was a barnstormer, was a commanding officer in the Army Air Corps serving during World Wars I and II and the Korean War, and retired to a farm called Chosumneda in Edgecombe County, North Carolina near the Carr home place at Bracebridge Hall.
This collection includes scanned digital material available as jpg files donated to the repository on a compact disc. The original material is not a part of the collection and the digital copies donated on the disc were created in 2004-2005. Of the 581 images in the collection, the majority of the material are scans of photographs with some clippings and documents included.
The material was arranged in four folders on the disc by the donor. Their titles and content are as follows: Folder 1: Photos Fillmore – Plane and Place – Copy (81.4MB/283 files). This folder contains images of barnstorming, early aircraft flown in air derbies or races, biplanes and other early airplanes (ca.1900-1960s), Fillmore's Flying Service, plane crashes, agricultural scenes, manuals, notable early aviators, celebrities, aerial photographs from World War II, including the bombing of Pearl Harbor, World War II-era generals, clippings, Calvary Esp. Church, and various images of friends and family members.
Folder 2: Photos Fillmore Commanding (30.4MB/116 files). This folder primarily contains World War II-era photographs of Fillmore, Waycross Army Air Field, and other military personnel. Notable are scans of a press release regarding a flight by female pilots Edna May Cooper and Bobbie Trout dated January 5, 1931 who were seeking an air endurance record and a press release detailing an accident involving an endurance flight flown by John S. Donaldson and Edward Weimer dated November 13, 1930.
Folder 3: Photos Fillmore Farming Civ (8.73MB/51 files). This folder contains images of Fillmore's family, children, grandchildren, and friends.
Folder 4: Photos Fillmore Flying (65.8MB/135 files). This folder contains images Fillmore, the Fillmore Flying Service, military-related photographs, early airplanes (1911-1960s), notable including early female aviators, a photograph of the participants of the 1929 Women's National Air Derby depicting Amelia Earhart, among others, Fillmore's family, various places he traveled, doctors, grandchildren, and friends.
Gift of Edward R. Taylor
Processed by Kelly Spring, 2022
Collection Guide updated by John Dunning, 2024
Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.
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