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Amelia Earhart at Purdue papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 450
Scope and Contents
The Amelia Earhart at Purdue papers document Amelia Earhart's arrival at Purdue University, her time there, and the efforts to memorialize Earhart after her disappearance. Types of materials include correspondence, ephemera, administrative reports, photographs, publicity materials, and speeches.
Dates:
1935 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1937
Zelda Gould collection of Amy Otis Earhart correspondence and photographs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 79
Scope and Contents
The Zelda Gould collection of Amy Otis Earhart correspondence and photographs documents the thoughts and feelings Amelia Earhart's mother, Amy Otis Earhart, was experiencing after the disappearance of her daughter, and then coming to terms with her fate. Topics also include World War II and the events following the war, politics and elections, current events of the era, hobbies, personal concerns, thank-you notes, among other topics. There are some newspaper clippings about...
Dates:
1930 - 1950; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1949
Toni Mayo papers and research files for "Defining Flight"
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSP 181
Abstract
Documentation and research notes from twenty personal narratives of Huntington County, Indiana pilots and aviatrixes who flew during the early to mid-twentieth century. The research notes from oral histories were used by Toni Mayo in the compilation of her master’s thesis and book, Defining Flight.
Dates:
1911-2003; Other: Majority of material found in 1998-2001; Other: Date acquired: 05/11/2013