Contents of the Collection The Velda King Mapelli Air Racing Collection is comprised of hundreds of photographs and a small amount of negatives; textual materials suchs as brochures, certificates, ID cards, licenses, assorted ephemera, and correspondence; and race booklets from assorted races. The materials were collected by Velda King Mapelli, as well as her daughter Stephanie and husband Gene, during the course of her flying years, approximately 1969-1989. The photographs, which are both in color and...

Contents of the Collection The Captain Charles B. D. Collyer Collection is a small collection of portraits and correspondence related to Captain Charles B. D. Collyer. The bulk of the collection is comprised of correspondence between Collyer's former fiancée Eleanor Waddell, A. Lee Moore, Arizona Senator Carl Hayden, and Secretary of War Harry L. Stimson. The correspondence focuses on Waddell's attempt to have an air field in Arizona named in honor of Collyer. Note that the initial letter from Waddell to Senator Hayden...