Box 5

Scope and Contents The George Palmer Putnam collection of Amelia Earhart papers documents the personal life, aviation career, and business activities of pilot Amelia Earhart. Types of materials include: advertisements, articles, artifacts, awards, blueprints, books, certificates, charts, commemorative coins, contracts, correspondence, data sheets, diagrams, ephemera, flight logs, licenses, maps, newspaper clippings, notebooks, notes, permits, photographs, poetry, postage stamps, press releases, scrapbooks,...

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 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.

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This subseries contains correspondence related to Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan's disappearance and search, including correspondence with Purdue University. Also included is a Pan American Airways system reports on Earhart’s radio transmissions, report by J. A. Callopy of the Civil Aviation Board regarding Earhart’s Lockheed Electra and her last flight, newspaper clippings, tribute poems and memorials, along with condolence letters.