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Collection on the 100th Anniversary of the First Official Airmail, first day cover, related stamps and souvenir booklet
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 1, Placement: 06, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSA 292
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the 100th Anniversary first day cover of the official airmail, Balloon "Jupiter," Lafayette, Indiana, 1859 and a copy of the souvenir booklet issued at that time. It also contains four United States, "Jupiter" postage stamps, commemorating the 100th anniversary in 1959. There are six other air mail stamps featured in the collection.An addition of two envelopes commemorating the world's first air mail flight and stamped with, "Via, Purdue Airplane - Capt....
Dates:
1859 - 1959
Dan Grier collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 459
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous magazine and newspaper articles about Purdue University
Dates:
1966-1968
Opal D. Stech scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSA 36
Scope and Contents
The Opal D. Stech collection is contained in a scrapbook, which documents Opal Stech's time as a Purdue student. The scrapbook includes programs from various events, invitations, newspaper clippings, news photographs and mementos. Some of the organizations and subjects in the scrapbook include the Purdue Christian Foundation, the Little Theater, the Women's Athletic Association, numerous convocations and lectures, Kappa Beta, Mother's Day events, The Twelve (Christian group), R. O. T. C.,...
Dates:
1928 - 1934
Dorothy Stratton U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Christening and Commissioning collection
Collection — Box: Box 1
Identifier: MSP 111
Abstract
This collection contains material documenting two events: the christening in 2010 and the commissioning in 2012 of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stratton, named after Purdue University’s first full-time Dean of Women, and Director of the U.S. Coast Guard Women’s Reserve, Dorothy Stratton.
Dates:
2010 - 2012; Other: Date acquired: 04/10/2012