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Women in Aviation

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Albert and John Bresnik film of Amelia Earhart

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 330
Content Description

This 16mm film shows Albert Bresnik photographing Amelia Earhart on and around her Lockheed Electra in Burbank, California.

Dates: May 20, 1937

Collection of materials related to Clara Adams, Marian Anderson, and women's rights

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20190522

Collection on Louise and Eugene Poitevin

 Unprocessed Material — Box Communal Accessions 66, Folder: 1
Identifier: 20190705

Dwight W. Eggleston photographs of Amelia Earhart

 Unprocessed Material — Digital folder 2024-061 Dwight W. Eggleston photographs of Amelia Earhart
Identifier: 2024-061
Dates: May 31, 1937 - June 1, 1937

Amelia Earhart movietone film

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 197
Scope and Contents The Amelia Earhart movietone film is a 25 minute documentary television episode created by David Wolper for the Biography series (1961-1963). The film documents Amelia Earhart's life (1897-1937) including her upbringing and family, accomplishments in the field of aviation, and disappearance. It includes archival footage of Earhart, significant moments that occured during her life such as women gaining the right to vote and World War I, and her rise in the field of aviation...
Dates: March 25, 1962

Our Poetic Tribute to Amelia Earhart album

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 20120416

South Shore Country Club program

 Unprocessed Material — Communal accessions box 14
Identifier: 20111007.1

Elizabeth Speirs collection on Ramoth H. Trask

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 86
Identifier: MSP 335
Scope and Contents

Includes Ramoth H. Trask's student pilot's permit from 1928, newspaper clippings of her obituary and posthumous donations to Purdue, and a photograph of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority in 1919 where Trask was a member.

Dates: 1919 - 1973

Terry White photographs of Amelia Earhart

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 70, Placement: 05
Identifier: MSP 321
Scope and Contents

Includes ten 3"x5" black and white photographs taken by Terry White of Amelia Earhart in Hawaii on her first world flight attempt in 1937.

Dates: 1937

Totsye Harper Winslow collection on the Curtiss-Wright Cadettes

 Collection — Box Box 1
Identifier: MSA 195
Scope and Contents The Totsye Harper Winslow papers on the Curtis-Wright Cadettes (1943-1997; 0.25 cubic feet) documents role and history of the Curtis-Wright Cadettes at Purdue and in the Curtis-Wright Corporation during World War II.  Photographs, newsletter, and clippings document their time at Purdue as well as the Engineering Cadette Program.  Programs, newsletters, and papers document local and national reunions of the cadettes, as well as their history.  Also included is information on the individual...
Dates: 1943 - 1995; Other: Date acquired: 11/04/2008