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Box 11

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Contains 3 Results:

George Palmer Putnam collection of Amelia Earhart papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 9
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,...
Dates: 1785-1948; Majority of material found within 1928 - 1937

Photographs and Sketches, 1897 - 1937, undated

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 9, Series 4
Scope and Contents The series primarily includes photographic prints of Amelia Earhart, George Palmer Putnam, and others; Earhart’s various airplanes such as the Friendship, Kinner Airster, Lockheed Vega, and Lockheed Electra; Earhart’s flight in the Autogiro; and scenery from various locations all over the world that Earhart visited during her flights. It also includes a small selection of sketches of Earhart. The series documents Earhart’s childhood and family, her major flights, and her aviation/business...
Dates: 1897 - 1937, undated

Major Flights, 1928 - 1937

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 9, Series 4, Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

The sub-series includes photographs from Earhart's major flights including the transatlantic Friendship flight (1928), solo transatlantic flight (1932), transcontinental flights, Mexico City to Newart flight (1935), and her world flight, both attempts.

Dates: 1928 - 1937