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Flying Career, 1927 - 1938

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 9, Series 1

Scope and Contents

The Flying Career series documents Earhart’s major flights and flying activities. Types of material include licenses, contracts, correspondence, advertisements, maps, awards, certificates, printed material, permits, flight logs, passport, authorizations, charts, press releases, newspaper clippings, information on AE’s airplanes and flights, receipts, works of art on paper, philatelic materials, ephemera, notes, information on pilot Ruth Nichols, reports,... flight information, charts, data sheets, resolutions, ephemera, diagrams, blueprints, and documentation relating to the disappearance and search for Amelia Earhart. All correspondence has been arranged chronologically by subseries. Letters sent to and from George Palmer Putnam have been retained with Earhart’s flight correspondence, as he often wrote on her behalf as her manager.

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Dates

  • Creation: 1927 - 1938

Creator

Access Information

The collection is open for research.

Extent

2.758 Cubic Feet (Five legal-size full-width manuscript boxes)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

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Arrangement

All correspondence has been arranged chronologically by subseries. Letters sent to and from George Palmer Putnam have been retained with Earhart’s flight correspondence, as he often wrote on her behalf as her manager. The Flying Career series is divided into the following subseries:

  1. Contracts and Licenses
  2. Friendship Flight
  3. National Women's Air Derby
  4. Women's World Speed Record
  5. The Autogiro
  6. Solo Atlantic Flight
  7. Transcontinental Speed Record
  8. Ligue Internationale Aviatrix Trophy
  9. Hawaii Flight
  10. Mexico Flight
  11. Admission of Women Pilots in Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA)
  12. World Flight Attempt One
  13. World Flight Attempt Two
  14. Disappearance and Search

Repository Details

Part of the Purdue University Archives and Special Collections Repository

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