Administrative Information

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Use Restrictions

Consult repository for copyright information

Preferred Citation

Dulles Airport Scrapbooks, MSS 06-89, Virginia Room, Fairfax County Public Library.

Acquisition Information

Unknown.

Processing Information

Chris Barbuschak, October 2016
EAD generated by Ross Landis, 2024

Historical and Biographical Information

In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower chose Chantilly, Virginia as the site of a new airport to serve the Washington Metropolitan region after passing over other possible sites in Pender and Burke, Virginia. The government acquired 9,800 acres of land for the construction and had noted Finish-American architect Eero Sarrinen design the main terminal building. Named after Eisenhower’s former Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, President John F. Kennedy dedicated the airport on November 17, 1962. Over the decades, the airport has expanded to occupy more than 13,000 acres and continues to be one of the busiest airports in the Mid-Atlantic.

Scope and Content

The Dulles Airport Scrapbooks contains 1.5 linear feet of two scrapbooks, newspapers, clippings, and photographs created by an unknown individual spanning the years 1958-2008. The red scrapbook contains early newspaper clippings documenting the acquisition of airport land in Chantilly, Va., the January 1958 narcotics raid on an opium ring in Fairfax County, Leeton and Sully Plantations, and airport construction. The green scrapbook contains later clippings documenting the airport's construction, dedication, expansion, anniversaries, Concorde jet noise issues, and Enterprise space shuttle flyover. Loose clippings and newspapers include the November 15, 1962 Loudoun Times-Mirror Dulles Airport edition; November 18, 1962 Washington Post Potomac; and November 1, 1963 Northern Virginia Sun Dulles Airport Special Section. Four amateur color photographs of the airport's opening day in November 1963 are also included.

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Separated Material

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Index Terms

• Chantilly, Virginia
• Concorde (Jet Transports)
• Washington Dulles International Airport

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