Box 4

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...

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This subseries contains some of the correspondence related to the Ligue Internationale Aviatrix Trophy.

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In this subseries one can find weather maps, correspondence, permits, and Earhart’s “popping off” (her matter-of-fact phrase) letters related to the 1935 Hawaii flight.

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This subseries contains material related to the 1935 Mexico flight; correspondence, ephemera and printed material, including a certificate of appreciation from the Mexican government.

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This subseries reflects Earhart’s efforts (correspondence) to help women gain acceptance into the Air Line Pilots Association.

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This subseries includes correspondence, including handwritten notes by Earhart, a notebook of weather conditions, flight permission requests, and press clippings. Please see the Photographs series for related photographs.

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This subseries is comprised of pre and post-flight correspondence, notebook of weather conditions, philatelic materials, press clippings, permissions, permits and authorizations, receipts (gas, oil, storage and landing fees for airplane), inspections reports, diagrams, airport information, and numerous related documents. Of note are Earhart’s flight logs/journals from the flight. See the Photographs series for photographs related to the flight.