Package label for Frederick Noonan, undated

The Publications and Graphic Materials series includes newspaper clippings about Mary Beatrice Noonan and George Palmer Putnam waiting for word of their spouses survival in the days and months following their last reported communication with the Itasca vessel. Also in this series is an oversized extensive scrapbook documents the first flight of Pan American Airways China Clipper in 1935, Noonan’s career as a navigator, the 1938 fatal crash of Pan American Airways’ Samoan Clipper, and Mary Beatrice Noonan’s appearance in the press in 1938. Other printed materials include publications about the continued search for the wreckage from Earhart and Noonan’s last flight an a photo-realistic artwork of the Pan American China Clipper.