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The personal and family life series documents the private life of Amelia Earhart.

The business activities series documents Amelia Earhart’s work as Aviation Editor for Cosmopolitan Magazine, Vice President of the National Aeronautic Association, Vice President of The Ludington Line, designer of clothing for women, and position as Consultant in the Department of Careers for Women at Purdue University. Types of materials include correspondence, business letterhead, flight schedules and brochures, paycheck, ephemera, speeches, printed material, and notes.

General correspondence, primarily with friends and business associates. Included in the general correspondence series are Earhart and Putnam’s personal letters to and from Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932-1939).

The ephemera and miscellaneous subseries includes permits, membership cards, sketches of Earhart, invitations, poems written about her, collection of essays on Earhart by school children, philatelic materials, and miscellaneous small maps.

The Press subseries consists of general newspaper clippings about Earhart and her stance on women and aviation.