Women in aeronautics
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Narrower terms: Women air pilots; Women aircraft industry employees
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Mary "Pat" (Hiller) Call WASP Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2020-11-15
Content Description
The Mary "Pat" (Hiller) Call WASP Collection consists of materials relating to Call’s service as a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) from 1942-1944. Materials are arranged alphabetically and span from 1939-2019 (bulk 1943-1980). The collection consists of about 0.6 cubic feet of material, including military records, licenses and membership cards, flight records and logbooks, correspondence, photographs, ephemera, and clippings. Correspondence in the collection includes...
Dates:
1939-2019
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Fern B. Lenox Evans Pilot Collection
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2024-07-22-A
Contents of the Collection
The Fern B. Lenox Evans Pilot Collection is a small collection that pertains to the pilot career of Fern B. Evans, circa 1940s-1950s. It includes identification cards, such as Evans' pilot licenses as well as medical certificates; a Commercial Pilot examination kit; and assorted maps and charts. There are also four modern digital reprint black-and-white photographs: two portraits of Evans with an aircraft, one portrait of Evans without an aircraft, and a 1951 group portrait of the Radar...
Dates:
circa 1940s-1950s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Jean (Taylor) Howard WASP Collection
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2007-09-05
Contents of the Collection
The Jean (Taylor) Howard WASP Collection contains a black-and-white digital photographic print and a pilot's logbook related to the World War II military service of Jean (Taylor) Howard. The 5x7" print depicts Howard standing in front of an obscured front-facing Piper J-3. She is dressed as a civilian. There is no contextual information on the photograph.
Dates:
1939-1945
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Carol (Nicholson) Lewis WASP Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2009-05-07
Abstract
Carol (Nicholson) Lewis (1923-1987) joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) in 1943 and was assigned to Moore Air Base (Texas), Class 44-W-7. The collection includes official documents, photographs, correspondence, clippings, and ephemera related to Lewis' 1943-1945 WASP service. A small amount of correspondence and ephemera concerning her marriage is also included in the collection.
Dates:
1941-1946
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Nordhoff and Dunnam Families World War I and Bellevue Airport Collection
Collection
Identifier: 1993-05-11
Abstract
Collection of photographs, scrapbooks, clippings, and assorted ephemera from the Nordhoff and Dunnam families, who served as pilots in World War I and World War II and later founded the Bellevue Airport.
Dates:
1910s to 1980s, 2014
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Dora Jean (Dougherty) Strother WASP Photographs Collection
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 1986-12-09-A
Content Description
The Dora Jean (Dougherty) Strother WASP Photographs Collection is a small collection consisting of two photographs of Women Air Service Pilots at Elgin Air Force Base with the B-29 "Ladybird" before a B-29 demonstration tour in 1944.The first photograph depicts Women Airforce Service Pilots Dora J. Dougherty and Dorothea J. Moorman accepting aircraft papers from a representative of the Boeing Company for the B-29 "Ladybird" at Eglin Field, Florida, June 1944. Nose art of...
Dates:
June 1944
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Rita M. (Davoly) Webster WASP Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2024-05-01
Contents of the Collection
The Rita M. (Davoly) Webster WASP Collection is a small collection of mainly textual materials that pertains to Rita Davoly's World War II WASP career. The bulk of the materials is contemporaneous with her 1943-1944 service, although a small amount of items is retrospective in nature.World War II-era materials include Davoly's WASP military service records, identification cards, United States Army Air Forces diploma, a photocopy of the WASP songbook and General Hap Arnold's...
Dates:
1941-2010
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Jeanette R. (Rogowski) Witzkowski World War II Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2013-11-27
Contents of the Collection
The Jeanette R. (Rogowski) Witzkowski World War II Collection relates to the World War II-era experience of Jeanette Witzkowski, who served as a pilot and air traffic controller during World War II. It includes primarily textual materials and a small amount of photographic prints, with the bulk of the material falling within 1935-1947. Textual materials include Civial Aeronuatics Administration (CAA) air traffic control instructional documents and aircraft clearance forms and...
Dates:
1935-1948,1983; Majority of material found within 1935-1948
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
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