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title: "Media and the Donald A. Hall Collection"
description: "Explore the Donald A. Hall Collection, restored stories, archival evidence, exhibitions, publications, and rights-aware media resources."
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# The Collection is not the destination. It is the launchpad.

Original photographs, engineering records, correspondence, designs, negatives, art, books, and years of interpretation give Flying Over Time something rare: a public story with evidence underneath it.

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## Evidence before eloquence.

A compelling story is only as durable as its source trail. Flying Over Time connects public interpretation to identified records, distinguishes fact from inference and open research, preserves credits and restrictions, and maintains a correction path.

That discipline lets one collection serve many forms: a student lesson, a restored article, an exhibition, a press request, a book, a film conversation, or the spark that helps someone imagine a STEAM career.

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## One collection. Four ways in.

### Stories from the record

Eight promoted first-person and institutional records introduce the discovery, Collection stewardship, exhibitions, and artistic interpretation.

[Start reading](/blog)

### Donald A. Hall

Meet the aeronautical engineer through photographs, family records, design history, correspondence, and source-based interpretation.

[Explore the collection](/media/donald-a-hall)

### Spirit & Creator

Nova Hall’s book carries the family-held photographs and documentary record into a narrative about Donald Hall and the Spirit of St. Louis.

[See the book](/support/shop)

### Work with the evidence

Request interviews, approved assets, source material, credits, rights information, and production conversations.

[Visit the press room](/press)

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## The engineering record has texture.

![The trunk associated with the rediscovery of the Donald A. Hall Collection](https://ggovqvzgputcdzqgbxgv.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/public-media/e8ce061a-cd0a-4f89-b61d-e7cf0d4534dc/legacy/mirrors/fce01c553b88dc6e17a93e1c/abf317f89aa8d6bb387fc8d1d06396ac-DAH-trunk.jpg)

*The family discovery that helped set the book, art, and Collection in motion.*

![Technical cutaway drawing of the Spirit of St. Louis tank and cockpit](https://ggovqvzgputcdzqgbxgv.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/public-media/e8ce061a-cd0a-4f89-b61d-e7cf0d4534dc/legacy/mirrors/4059722904cea0bf870f6aa0/ae3d81fefc34034a062b973bc692f3fc-spirit_tankcockpit_cutaway-1909act.jpg)

*Technical evidence makes design choices visible.*

![A completed Spirit of St. Louis aircraft display](https://ggovqvzgputcdzqgbxgv.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/public-media/e8ce061a-cd0a-4f89-b61d-e7cf0d4534dc/legacy/mirrors/6712f6696348f6b1027d2813/12ade4938ff3f50011cf749eb2896971-spirit_finished_dutch-crop.jpg)

*A finished aircraft is the visible result of many hidden decisions.*

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## Three promises behind every public use.

- **1: Preserve** — Stabilize, inventory, scan at archival quality, and protect custody and backups.
- **2: Verify** — Identify people, places, dates, rights, credits, uncertainty, and source trails before interpretation.
- **3: Share responsibly** — Create useful web, press, exhibition, and education editions while preserving permissions, corrections, and reuse records.

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## Preservation is where every lesson, article, exhibition, and film conversation begins.



[Support digitization](/support) · [Make a media inquiry](/press)