Flying Career, 1927 - 1938
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.
See moreDates
- Creation: 1927 - 1938
Creator
- From the Collection: Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937 (Person)
- From the Collection: Putnam, George Palmer, 1887-1950 (Person)
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
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:
- Contracts and Licenses
- Friendship Flight
- National Women's Air Derby
- Women's World Speed Record
- The Autogiro
- Solo Atlantic Flight
- Transcontinental Speed Record
- Ligue Internationale Aviatrix Trophy
- Hawaii Flight
- Mexico Flight
- Admission of Women Pilots in Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA)
- World Flight Attempt One
- World Flight Attempt Two
- Disappearance and Search
Repository Details
Part of the Purdue University Archives and Special Collections Repository
504 Mitch Daniels Boulevard
West Lafayette Indiana 47907 United States
765-494-2839
archives@purdue.edu