Jean W. Seele Rural Photographs
name: label: Donor
content: Seele, Charline
label: Photographer
content: Seele, Jean W. (Jean Warren), 1924-1993
place: label: Place
content: Kansas
topic: label: Topic
content: Rural scenes
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Ms. Charline Seele, 2000.
creator: label: Donor
content: Seele, Charline
label: Photographer
content: Seele, Jean W. (Jean Warren), 1924-1993
setName: label: See more items in
content: Jean W. Seele Rural Photographs
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Jean Warren (J. W.) Seele (1924-1993) was born in Topeka, Kansas and studied aeronautics at the Spartan School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He worked for thirty years as an engineering technician at the Kansas Department of Transportation. Photography became a hobby that ultimately allowed him to pursue his interest in aviation. In the mid-1970s, he began to photograph the Kansas countryside.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.6 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1963-1983
custodhist: label: Ownership and Custodial History
content: Gift of Ms. Charline Seele, widow of the photographer (transaction finalized 2002). Received in 2001. Originally received by NASM with Seele's aircraft photographs, then transferred to the Archives Center through Dr. Pete Daniel, curator of agriculture. Later (June 15, 2001) some aviation-related images were returned to NASM.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0759
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
label: Type
content: Landscapes (representations)
label: Type
content: Chromogenic processes
label: Type
content: Color prints (photographs)
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Collection is divided into two series.

Series 1: Photographs

Series 2: Slides
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Archives Center staff, 2020.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Slides (photographs) -- 1950-2000
label: Genre/Form
content: Landscapes (representations) -- Kansas
label: Genre/Form
content: Chromogenic processes
label: Genre/Form
content: Color prints (photographs)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Approx. 1,065 color photographs (chromogenic prints), negatives and slides of rural scenes, mostly in Kansas.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Archival Materials
content: Other Materials at the Smithsonian

National Air and Space Museum Archives

Jean Warren (J. W.) Seele Aircraft Photography Collection, circa 1950s-1970s

This collection consists of approximately 6000 color slides and over 2000 negatives/prints (a mixture of color and black and white) of civil and military aircraft taken by Seele, circa 1950s-1970s. The shots were taken in the United States, specifically in the Midwest. Aircraft from the following manufacturers are represented: Aero Commander, Arrow, Aeronca, Beechcraft, Bell, Bellanca, Boeing, Bristol, Bucker, Callair, Cessna, Consolidated, Convair, Curtiss, Dassault, de Havilland, Davis, Dart, Douglas, ERCO, Fairchild, Fleet, Ford, Goodyear, Great Lakes, Grumman, Howard, Hawker Siddeley, Hughes, Heinkel, Jodel, Junkers, Lockheed, Ling-Temco-Vought, Lawson, Parsons, Pitts, Pitcarin, Piper, Pazmany, Piaggo, Porterfield, Republic, SAAB, Sikorsky, Stampe, Stearman, Stinson, Swearingen, Taylor, Vickers, and Waco. In June of 2001 the Smitihsonian's Museum of American History transferred an additional shoebox of Seele photography that had been sent directly to them from the widow. This color images included balloon events as well as aircraft shots. The ballooning images are color prints taken mostly around Topeka, Kansas, while the aircraft images are color transparencies of aircraft taken, again, mostly around Topeka.