Fred F. Marshall Collection Scope and Content

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The Fred F. Marshall papers consist of a variety of materials. They include general correspondence, magazines, photographs, photo albums, and rough drafts of feature stories, negatives, and broadsides. The earliest document dates from 1919 and the latest from 1971.

The Collection incorporates:

• Legal documents, minutes and manuscripts of the McCook Field Alumni, 1919-1929.
  
• Correspondence with many of the companies that subscribed to Slipstream, and/or from those who contributed articles, 1919-1949.
• Printed Material, including nearly all copies of Slipstream (with the exception of Vol. 2, nos 1, 4, 6, 8, 11, Vol. 3 nos 2, 4, 5, 9, 13, 17, Vol. 6 nos 7, 9, 11), 1919-1971.
• Photographs and photo albums from World War I.
• Postcards from his service in the Army during World War I.

The importance of this collection lies in the following:

• Photographs documenting the horor and destruction of World War I;
• Printed material documenting, through the publication Slipstream, the history and growth of commercial aviation;
• Correspondence demonstrating Fred Marshall's
  • Efforts to promote Slipstream
  • Urging establishment at Wright Field of a Wright Memorial, an Aviation Museum and a School of Aeronautical Engineering
  • Organization of the McCook Field Alumni
  • Plans to write a book on early aviation history, highlighting the Wright brothers, McCook Field and the city of Dayton.

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