Museum of History & Industry, Sophie Frye Bass Library
5933 6th Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98108
Phone: 206-324-1126
URL: http://www.mohai.org
1953.345
Boeing Airplane Company
Boeing Airplane Company airplane production photographs
1929
150 photographs
1 box
Official Boeing Airplane Company photographs of the production of planes at the
Boeing plant on the Duwamish River in Seattle, 1929.
2a.4.8
1a.3.13 (oversize photo) Collection materials are in
English.
The collection consists of 150 8" x 10" official Boeing Airplane Company photographs of the production of
planes at the Boeing factory on the Duwamish River in Seattle. The photographs document facilities and equipment for
testing various airplane parts; airplane parts and sections under construction, including a gun mount, frames for
airplane wings and bodies, connection beams and engines; parts installation and plane assembly; and views of completed
planes. Also includes photographs of test models and full size mock ups, including a mock up for the Model 200
Monomail, and for the military Model XP-9, which was never produced.
The collection represents the range of planes produced by Boeing during this period: private and commercial
passenger planes, mail planes for delivering airmail under Boeing's recent U.S. Postal Department contract, pursuit and
fighter planes for the military; and planes for pilot training at the Boeing School of Aeronautics. Models include
flying boats, biplanes and monoplanes.
Each photograph is embossed with the Boeing logo and stamped on verso with "Boeing Off. Photo" and the Boeing
logo.
View selections from the collection in digital format
here.
The collection is open to the public by appointment.
The Museum of History & Industry is the owner of the materials in the Sophie Frye Bass Library and makes
available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from MOHAI
before any reproduction use. The museum does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections.
In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.
Boeing Airplane Company airplane production photographs, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle
Gift of Mrs. William Boeing, March 26, 1953
The photographs were bound into an album, probably during previous processing. Typewritten on the cover of the
album was the title "Boeing Airplane Company Pictures, W E Boeing copies presented by Mrs. W E Boeing, Seattle
Historical Society." The first half of the album was arranged into Boeing photo number order; the remainder appeared to
be in random order. The album was disassembled and the photographs rearranged in folders into Boeing photo number
order, which corresponds approximately with the chronological order.
Collection is numbered beginning with number 2; number 1 has been assigned to the artifacts received with the
donation.
These materials are part of a donation that also included a small number of artifacts. These artifacts are
cataloged and stored separately by MOHAI's Collections Department.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials
about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.
Seattle (Wash.)
Aircraft industry--Washington (State)--Photographs
Airplane factories--Washington (State)--Photographs
Boeing airplanes--Design and construction--Photographs
Seattle
Photographs
Transportation
Photographic prints
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.
2-3
1
Model F4B-1
1929 March-April
4-5
1
Model B-1E
1929 April 15 and 29
6
1
Aerial view of Boeing Airplane Co. factory
1929 April 26
7-14
1-2
Model 80-A
1929 July 5 and 10
15-16
2
Model 40-X
1929 July 10
17
2
Assembly of unidentified plane inside factory
1929 July 23
18-20
2
Model 80-A
1929 August 14
21-23
2-3
Parts to unidentified planes
1929 August 23
24-31
3
Model 203-A
1929 August 23
32-37
4
Model 81-B
1929 September 26
38-46
4-5
Model 40-B4
1929 August 24
1929 September 16 and 26
47
5
Assembly plant interior
1929 November 14
48-49
5
Model 200
1929 September 14
1929 October 4
50
5
Model P-12B
1929 October 7
51-55
6
Model 80-A
1929 October 1-2
56-58
6
Model XP-9
1929 October 10
59-64
6-7
Model 200
1929 October 10
65
7
Vibration test paramount tank
1929 October 17
66-68
7
Model F4 B-1
1929 October 17
69-73
7-8
Inspection of parts for the Model F3-B, Model 80A, and unidentified
planes
1929 October 19
74-76
8
Model XP-9
1929 October 19
77
8
Model 202
1929 October 21
78-79
8
Model 203
1929 October 19
80-85
8-9
Model 100
1929 October 19-21
86-92
9-10
Model 203
1929 October 25-28
93-94
10
Model 80A
1929 October 25
95
10
Model 40-4B battery cutout switch model
1929 October 25
96
10
Model 203 instrument front board model
1929 October 26
97
10
Model makers at work
1929 October 29
98-99
10
Model F4-B1
1929 October 25
100-101
10-11
Model 202
1929 November 1
102-106
11
Model 100
1929 October 25-26
107
11
Model 80A
1929 October 30
108
11
Model 202
1929 November 2
109
11
Drawing of Model P-12B
1929 November 2
110-115
11-12
Model 203
1929 November 2-4
116
12
Model 202
1929 November 2
117-120
12
Model 203
1929 November 12
121-122
13
Model 40-B4
1929 November 13
123
13
Model 202
1929 November 14
124-126
13
Model 200
1929 November 9
127
13
Model P-12B
1929 November 16
128
13
Model 202
1929 November 16
129
13
Fuel system parts
1929 November 18
130-131
13-14
Model 203
1929 November 18
132-137
14
Model 80A
1929 November 21
138-145
14-15
Model 40-B4
1929 November 23-29
146-147
15
Model 80A
1929 November 29
148
15
Photograph of letter to Boeing from the Airship Commander of
Land of Soviets
1929 October 19
149
15
Photograph of airport model
undated
150
15
Aerial view of airfield
undated
151
K1
Aerial view of Beoing plant under construction
undated
Index to planes
As the photographs are arranged in Boeing number order, photographs of same model planes are separated in the
inventory. To facilitate searching by plane model, the following index lists planes by model number:
Model B-1E
[ Item numbers 4,5 ]
Model F3-B
[ Item number 69 ]
Model F4-B1
[ Item numbers 2,3, 66, 67, 98, 99 ]
Model P-12B
[ Item numbers 50, 109, 127 ]
Model XP-9
[ Item numbers 56-58, 74-76 ]
Model 40-B4
[ Item numbers 44, 45, 95, 121-122, 138-145 ]
Model 40-B4A
[ Item numbers 38-43 ]
Model 40X
[ Item numbers 15,16 ]
Model 80A
[ Item numbers 7-14, 18-20, 51-55, 71, 93, 94, 107, 132-137, 146, 147 ]
Model 81B
[ Item numbers 32-37 ]
Model 100
[ Item numbers 80-85, 102-106 ]
Model 200
[ Item numbers 48, 49, 59-64, 124-126 ]
Model 202
[ Item numbers 77, 100, 101, 108, 116, 123, 128 ]
Model 203 and 203 A
[ Item numbers 24-31, 78, 79, 86-92, 96, 110-115, 117-120, 130, 131 ]