Accession#:
2005-115
Title:
Sellmer Aircraft Hanger
Date:
1940
Catalog Date:
05/16/2006
Category:
10: Unclassifiable Artifacts
Classification:
Aircraft
Transportation
Transportation
Collection:
SBHS Photo Collection
Description:
A computer printout of a black and white photograph of Mr. Sellmer who built an aircraft in his house at Calle del Ribera in 1940's. He is standing by the door of his second floor door. An attached shed and a ramp going up to the opening of the shed is built In front of the house and a completed wooden frame of a plane is setting on the ramp. The wings of the plane is detached and sit rotated in the same direction as the fuselage of the plane so that the entire construction could go inside of the shed. Mr. Sellmer 's son Walter Bruno was a local game warden, a sheriff and later in life wrote letters to shut-ins to help cheer them up. The print out has the address, http://us.f420.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter/Sellmer_at_home.jpg..
Medium:
Paper
Notes:
See the book by his son, Walter Bruno, 1993L-103. Also an oral history by Jon Grissim.
Object ID:
2005-115-01
Object Name:
Print, copy
Orig/copy:
Copy
Place:
Neighborhoods/Calles
Print Size:
8 1/2 x 11
Related Publications:
See the book by his son, Walter Bruno, 1993L-103.
Source:
Unknown
Subjects:
Transportation
Year Range to:
1940
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Selmer Plane at Home
Selmer Plane at Home