Box 15

The scrapbooks series includes twenty scrapbooks compiled by Amelia Earhart and George Palmer Putnam. The scrapbooks consist of journal articles, newspaper clippings, and ephemera relating to Earhart, her flights, and other activities such as her promotion of aviation and women, her trips, endorsements, position at Purdue University, clothing and luggage lines, and her disappearance.

Newspaper clippings on Earhart’s early flying career, her work as a nurse’s aid and at Denison House, the first Women’s Air Derby, Wilmer Stultz’s death, a clipping suggesting that Earhart and George Palmer Putnam were engaged, which Earhart denied, clippings of other women pilots, and a 1931 clipping on Ruth Nichols’ plan to fly the Atlantic solo. Also includes Earhart’s flying student instruction contract, automobile permit, and piece of fabric from Earhart’s plane.