Skip to main content
Contact Us

Poulter, Thomas Charles, 1897-1978

 Person

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Antarctic Snow Cruiser

 Digital Image
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10560/islandora:1009440

Antarctic Snow Cruiser

 Digital Image
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10560/islandora:1009441

Snow Cruiser expansion collection, 1937-1939

 Collection
Identifier: 031.02.05
Description of the Collection Miscellaneous materials about the Snow Cruiser, primarily a 28-page photocopy of The Snow Cruiser: The Story of Its Conception and Construction and the Part it Will Play in the Expedition of the United States Antarctic Service by Alexander Schreiber, Public Relations Counsel, Research Foundation of Armour Institute of Technology (Project No. 1-89 [?]) Copyright 1939, Armour Research Foundation. Also miscellaneous news clippings. The following item was added to this collection by C....
Dates: 1937-1939

Snow Cruiser film, 1939

 Collection
Identifier: 031.10.09
Description of the Collection Black and white silent film: From Armour Institute to Little America - With Byrd and Poulter. Probably produced by Armour Research Foundation for promotional purposes. Contains only a few feet of footage of the Cruiser being driven down a street (probably from Pullman shops to Grant Park). Also contains footage of the plane taking off from unidentified airport. Balance of film is apparently stock footage added to suggest the Cruiser's transport to Antarctica. 1998.29.a 16 mm film reel (copy...
Dates: 1939

Snow Cruiser in Popular Mechanics, 1939

 Collection
Identifier: 031.02.07
Description of the Collection

Issue of Popular Mechanics (October, 1939, Vol. 72, No. ) with cover image (color drawing) and article on the Snow Cruiser explaining how the retractable wheels work. Includes illustrations. Pages 494, 495, and 151A.

Dates: 1939

Additional filters:

Record Type
Collection 3
Digital Record 2
 
Subject
Motor vehicles 3
Architectural drawings (visual works) 2
Scientific expeditions 2
Airplanes 1
Antarctica 1
 

Paul V. Galvin Library

35 West 33rd Street | Chicago, IL | 60616
312.567.6847 library@iit.edu