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Box 20

 Container

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Contains 2 Results:

Scrapbooks, 1918 - 1939, undated

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 9, Series 5
Scope and Contents

The scrapbooks series includes twenty scrapbooks compiled by Amelia Earhart and George Palmer Putnam. The scrapbooks consist of journal articles, newspaper clippings, and ephemera relating to Earhart, her flights, and other activities such as her promotion of aviation and women, her trips, endorsements, position at Purdue University, clothing and luggage lines, and her disappearance.

Dates: 1918 - 1939, undated
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / George Palmer Putnam collection of Amelia Earhart papers

Scrapbook #5, June 1932

 Item — Box: 20
Identifier: MSP 9, Series 5, Item 6
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings and ephemera, almost all relating to the National Geographic Society’s special gold medal presentation to Amelia Earhart on June 21, 1932; includes copy of Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor’s speech to Earhart, which was broadcast on NBC radio, and clippings of Earhart’s return to New York.

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