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Flying Career, bulk: 1927 - 1938

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 9, Series 1
Scope and Contents The Flying Career series documents Earhart’s major flights and flying activities. Types of material include licenses, contracts, correspondence, advertisements, maps, awards, certificates, printed material, permits, flight logs, passport, authorizations, charts, press releases, newspaper clippings, information on AE’s airplanes and flights, receipts, works of art on paper, philatelic materials, ephemera, notes, information on pilot Ruth Nichols, reports, flight information, charts, data...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1927 - 1938
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / George Palmer Putnam collection of Amelia Earhart papers

Contracts and Licenses, bulk: 1927 - 1935

 Sub-Series — Box: 1
Identifier: MSP 9, Series 1, Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

This subseries contains Earhart’s student flying instruction contract, along with her various aircraft and pilot’s licenses.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1927 - 1935
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / George Palmer Putnam collection of Amelia Earhart papers / Flying Career

Friendship Flight, 1928

 Sub-Series — Box: 1
Identifier: MSP 9, Series 1, Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

This subseries contains Earhart’s account of preparations for the flight, correspondence, newspaper clippings, press releases, and material related to a “Lucky Strike” cigarettes advertisement. See the photographs series for related photographs.

Dates: 1928
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / George Palmer Putnam collection of Amelia Earhart papers / Flying Career

National Women's Air Derby, 1929

 Sub-Series — Box: 1
Identifier: MSP 9, Series 1, Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents

Broadsides and Earhart’s log book from the event can be found in this subseries.

Dates: 1929
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / George Palmer Putnam collection of Amelia Earhart papers / Flying Career

Women's World Speed Record, 1930

 Sub-Series — Box: 1
Identifier: MSP 9, Series 1, Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents

The subseries includes one certificate of record from the National Aeronautic Association of the United States acknowledging Amelia Earhart’s women’s world speed record for Class C airplanes.

Dates: 1930
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / George Palmer Putnam collection of Amelia Earhart papers / Flying Career

The Autogiro, 1931

 Sub-Series — Box: 1
Identifier: MSP 9, Series 1, Sub-Series 5
Scope and Contents

This subseries contains a few items from her time flying the autogiro. Please see the Photographs series for related photos.

Dates: 1931
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / George Palmer Putnam collection of Amelia Earhart papers / Flying Career

Solo Atlantic Flight, 1932

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 9, Series 1, Sub-Series 6
Scope and Contents

This subseries contains Earhart’s flight log, passport, newspaper clippings, correspondence, ephemera, a lab report and chemical analysis of acid-damaged wires on her plane, and other related items from her Solo Atlantic Flight.

Dates: 1932
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / George Palmer Putnam collection of Amelia Earhart papers / Flying Career