The Descriptive Finding Guide for the James H. Hester Personal Papers. SDASM.SC.10069

Physical Description: 13 Folders

Physical Description: 1. Blank log book 2. Partial log book for 1917 3. Correspondence from Howard Batt, August 1921 4. Legal papers from the lease of hangar space at Clover Field to the Timm Brothers, 1932 5. Misc. personal correspondence with various friends 6. Undated brochure for Hester’s “Big Oak Basin Guest Ranch”

Physical Description: 1. Three photos attached to Popular Mechanic’s article on Frank Clark’s 1920 flight from a Los Angeles Skyscraper roof with Hester’s assistance. 2. As above 3. As above 4. Hester next to Douglas Cloudster with two other pilots 5. Hester with “Marie” next to Hester’s Curtiss Jenny, 1922 6. Wally Timm with a Timm M-150 Collegiate 7. Hester with “The Boys”, Venice CA, 1919 8. Hester and two aviators with Curtiss JN 9. “Leta” and Hester in plane 10. Swead Lundburg and plane, 1920 11. Mark Campbell with pet lion, 1920 12. Hester with Standard J-1 at Rogers Airport, 1920 13. Frank Clark taking off from building top, 21Dec20 14. Fokker D.VII, serial 8530. 15. Jim Hester in his first airplane, Curtiss Canuck, 1919 16. Loughead F-1 after conversion to landplane 17. Wreckage for “Frank ship” Curtiss JN, 1921 18. Loughead F-1 after conversion to landplane 19. Loughead F-1 after conversion to landplane 20. Hester next to wrecked plane 21. Loughead F-1 after conversion to landplane 22. Loughead F-1 after conversion to landplane 23. Timm Pacific Hawk with Wally Timm, Frank Clark and Jim Hester, 1919 24. Otto “Swede” Meyerhoffer, Frank Clark and Jim Hester with speed record plane, 1919 25. Mark Campbell and Frank Clark, 1920 26. Standard J-1, May, 1918 27. Curtiss Canuck, 1921 28. Unidentified speed record plane 29. Curtiss JN with wing walker, Santa Monica, 14Aug18 30. Hester working on unidentified speed record plane 31. Hester and Clark with group of Asian visitors 32. Packard-LePere Lusac 11 at Rogers Field air show 33. Hester working on unidentified speed record plane 34. Horses running during movie stunt, 1919 35. Pilots with wrecked plane, 1919 36. Frank Clark taking off from building top, 21Dec20 37. Ruth Law and Hester in car 38. Hester and Clark with wrecked plane 39. Hester’s Curtiss Canuck, 1919 40. Wally Timm, Hester and Nick Carter, building top, 21Dec20 41. Hester, Satsuma and Swede Meyerhoffer with damaged Curtiss JN 42. Hester’s Curtiss Canuck, 1919 43. DeHavilland DH-4 in flight, flown by Hester 44. Swede Meyerhoffer with airplane, 1917? 45. Ince Field, Venice CA, 1917 46. Swede Meyerhoffer and Hester with Standard J-1 at Venice Field, 1919 with Curtiss and children 47. Swede Meyerhoffer with two female passengers 48. Swede Meyerhoffer and Alice Morna (sp?), Venice Field, 1916-17 49. Photo postcard of plane landing on car 50. Hester changing planes in flight, Venice, 1921 51. Frank Clark and Wally Timm, 1919 52. Babe Kalishek, Venice CA, c21 53. Ruth Law 54. Junkers F 13 55. Curtiss L-4, 1920 56. Curtiss L-4, 1920 57. Female with Hester’s plane, 1923 58. Rube Short with plane, killed 4Jul23 59. Hester working on Standard L-6, 1920 60. Hester with his first airplane, Curtiss Canuck, 1920 61. Blimp flying over the building that Clark flew off, 1920 62. Clark walking on building parapet, 1920 63. Clark sitting in a small car marked “Chaplin Airdome” (sic) 64. Clark taking off from Los Angeles building, 21Dec20 65. Clark, Hester, Mark Campbell, Wally Timm and others with airplane on top of Los Angeles building, 21Dec20 66. Photo post card of “Fearless” Freddie Lund, stunt man and wing walker 67. Clark, Hester, Mark Campbell, Wally Timm and others with airplane on top of Los Angeles building, 21Dec20 68. Hester with “Ann” and “Por” 69. “Ann” and “Por” 70. CO Prest and Curtiss JN wreck, 1921 71. Hester and “Duck” with a wrecked airplane 72. Herb, Ann, Por and Hub 73. Swede Meyerhoffer and Hester in airplane, 1921 74. Hester in airplane, 1923 75. “What was left of Rob” – photo of wrecked and burned Curtiss JN 76. Hester’s dog “Laddie”, 1918 77. Culver City Field from the air, circa 1918 78. “SW”, man standing by planes, 1917 79. Hester’s Curtiss Canuck 80. Babe Kalishek, Venice CA, c21, inscribed to Hester 81. Babe Kalishek, Venice CA, c21, inscribed to Hester 82. Babe Kalishek, Venice CA, c21, standing on airplane wing, inscribed to Hester 83. Joe Hoff, barnstormer, 1921 84. Dick Oliver Kenwood and Howard Babb with one of Hester’s crashed planes, 1918 85. Crashed Curtiss JN 86. Army D.H.4B on forest patrol near Mt. Shasta with Hester, 1922 87. Lake Shasta, 1922 88. Curtiss JN Canuck 89. Catron-Fisk Triplane 90. Nose over crash, Curtiss JN 91. Wally Timm with the Borde Lon’s Monoplane 92. Dick Oliver Kenwood and Howard Babb with one of Hester’s crashed planes, 1918 93. Hester and Freddie Lund pose with girl at Rogers Field, 1920 94. “Friday the Runt” posing with plane, 1918 95. Frank Clark in plane 96. Catron-Fisk Triplane 97. Los Angeles Herald Examiner Building, 1920 98. Three women at the Big Valley Guest Ranch 99. Three women at the Big Valley Guest Ranch 100. Elmer Horsley in uniform, 1917 101. Airplane flying at Beverly Hills Speedway, circa 1920 102. Ansaldo SVA.5 belonging to Sheridan Motor Company of Oakland CA 103. Donald Douglas Jr. with Hubert Ketter wreck, 1922 104. Hester, Clark and others on top of tower, 1920 105. Wally Timm with the Borde Lon’s Monoplane, 1921 106. Bill Anderson in uniform, 1917 107. Booth Bee Line racer, 1920 108. Hester and Clark after an accident, 1919 109. “One I walked away from with a broken finger”, Hester crash, 1919 110. Clark, Hester, Mark Campbell, Wally Timm and others with airplane on top of Los Angeles building, 21Dec20 111. Frank Clark, 1919 112. Photo calendar, February, 1922 113. Johnny Rose and Jim Hester in Curtiss trainer, 1916, Hester at 16 years of age 114. Otto "Swede" Meyerhofer with two passengers in front of his Venice Aero Police Standard J-1, 1919 115. Otto "Swede" Meyerhofer with two passengers in his Venice Aero Police Standard J-1, 1919 116. Fokker T-2 with drums of fuel 117. Col. Joseph Clark in front of a USAAS Fokker D.VII 118. Aerial view of an air show at Rogers Field 119. Otto "Swede" Meyerhofer with two passengers in his Venice Aero Police Standard J-1, 19191 120. Photo calendar, June, 1922 121. Aerial view of rodeo in San Francisco 122. Timm Pacific Hawk, Venice, 1920 123. Fokker D.VII in flight 124. Packard-LePere Lusac 11 at Rogers Field air show, 1918 125. U.S. Navy blimp over Beverly Hills 126. Thomas Morse Sv-4c Scout, 38945, at Rogers Field air show, 1918 127. Fokker T-2 with drums of fuel 128. 1921 night view of an unknown Los Angeles airfield 129. Goodyear “Pony Blimp”, D-57 at Rogers Field, c1920 with Mercury Aviation Curtiss JNs 130. Timm Pacific Hawk, Venice, 1920 131. Timm Pacific Hawk in flight, Venice, 1920 132. Charlie Guegil (sp), Chinese Captain, with plane 133. Aerial view of an unknown movie studio, Culver City area circa 1920-21 134. Army D.H.4B on forest patrol near Mt. Shasta with Hester, 1922 135. Beverly Hills Speedway from the air, circa 1920 136. Junkers F.13 with Hester as pilot, Mercury Field 137. Hester performing a night flight over Ocean Park, 1920 138. Hester and Ruth Law sitting on the Timm Pacific Hawk, 1919 139. Hester and Ruth Law next to Hester’s airplane 140. Hester and other aviators on Ince Field, Venice CA, 1917 141. Hester with airplane, 1917 142. Hester with early Curtiss J, 1917 143. Hester and Ruth Law sitting in a car, 1918