This collection contains 18 images capturing prints and pages of a personal scrapbook. Documentation found within the National Air and Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Biographies noted the scrapbook belonging to and loaned by "Colonel" [Captain] Roderick Tower.
Photography within the scrapbook mostly consists of informal shots of United States Army Air Service officers, early aircrafts flown during World War I, and aerial views of Chanute Field in Illinois and Hazelhurst Field (later named Roosevelt Field) in New York. One page of the scrapbook contains four photographs of a Christofferson 1912 Seaplane on a beach near San Francisco, California in 1915. Another page includes two news clippings highlighting the plane flights of Miss Helen Tower, Roderick's younger sister.
Aircrafts featured: Curtiss JN-4D (Jenny), Curtiss JN-4HG (Hisso Jenny), LWF V-3, Standard (NJ) JR-1B, De Havilland DH-4, SPAD S.XIII, and a Farman pusher.
Captions include the following people: Gordon Tevis, Westmore Wilcox, [James] Sibley Watson, Lt. Harlan Heward, Lt. George Ziesner, Lt. George L. Bradford, Major General Thomas Hanley, Commanding Officer Junius Alexander R. Richards, Lt. John Hopkinson Baker, Quentin Roosevelt, Lt. Henry Potter Trainer, Lt. Thomas J. D. Fuller Jr., Lt. William "Jack" Foote, Sgt. W. R. Carruthers, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Capt. Georges Guynemer, Lt. Randolph Paige, Lt. Harrison W. Flickinger, Capt. Harry Smith, Lt. Kilgore, Lt. Percival Dodge, Lt. Rudolph William "Shorty" Schroeder, and Lt. G. Hughes.