Identity elements
Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Box
Title
Box #1
Date(s)
Extent
Folder #1 Billy’s Career (news clippings 1913-19)
Folder #2 Grinnell Herald, March 14, 1916 (copy); Grinnell Register, March 13, 1916 (copy)
Folder #3 Miscellaneous Articles/Clippings (1913-66)
Folder #4 Grinnell Aeroplane Co. (includes sample stock certificate)
Folder #5 Plans for Robinson Sea Plane, Grinnell Aeroplane Co.
Folder #6 Charles Hink & A.J. Hockett, Memories, 1954, 1975
Folder #7 Roy Adkins’ Memories, tape transcript, 5/1975
Folder #8 Iowa Historical Society, 1930, 1980
Folder #9 Smithsonian Correspondence w/Grant Gale, 1979
Folder #10 Donna Robinson Garland Correspondence, 1934-58
Folder #11 Airport, Memories of Billy, 1975?-1987
Folder #12 Airport, Billy Robinson Memorial Committee, 1987
Folder #13 Donna Robinson Garland Correspondence and Memorabilia to Airport Committee, 1987
(includes Garland obituary, 2003)
Folder #14 Billy Robinson Field, Smith Records, 1987-88
Folder #15 “Grinnell – A Century of Progress”, 1954, p.12, Billy Robinson Story
Folder #16 Grant Gale’s “Poweshiek Papers”
Folder #17 Xeroxed Excerpt from Iowa Takes to the Air, by Ann Pellegreno
Folder #18 Grinnell Airport 10th Anniversary
Smith, Robert D., William C. Robinson and the Grinnell Aeroplane Company – An Enigma.
Folder #19 Biographical Outline (prepared by Barbara Tabbert)
Folder #20 - Later News Articles (1967-)
Wolf, John, The Story of “Billy Robinson and The Grinnell Airplane Company. original and
copy (S & B. 2/10/1967)
Folder #21 – Smithsonian Materials
Folder #22 – Patents
Folder #23 – Cavanagh, Billy Robinson, Birdman of the Prairie.
Iowa Heritage, Summer 2014. (copy and complete issue)
Envelope #1 Originals of Clippings
Envelope #2 – Souvenir Program, “Wings Over Grinnell”, 6/16/1988 (2 copies)
Ray, W.G., “Billy Robinson, Bird Man”. Palimpsest, September 1930, pp. 369-375.