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Women in aeronautics

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Narrower terms: Women air pilots; Women aircraft industry employees

Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:

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

James D. Griffin Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2015-08-25
Abstract

James D. Griffin was an engineer for McDonnell Douglas Corporation. The collection contains five hundred and ninety-six (596) photographs, likely collected and notated by Griffin, featuring primarily Douglas Aircraft Company airplanes manufactured during the 1910s-1970s but also, to a lesser extent, other manufacturer models; including Aero Spacelines, Boeing, Consolidated, and Northrop. There is also a small amount of clippings, newsletters, and articles.

Dates: circa 1910s-1970s; Majority of material found within ( dates 1920s-1950s)
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Nancy S. Hammond Space Shuttle Programs Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2023-09-20
Contents of the Collection The Nancy S. Hammond Space Shuttle Programs Collection documents the career of Nancy Hammond while employed with the Boeing Aerospace Company on NASA contracts. Hammond was part of a group responsible for tracking the progress of scheduled tasks to complete the Inertial Upper Stage rocket to be attached to the TDRS-A (Tracking, Data, and Relay) Satellite to be launched on the Space Shuttle STS-6. This collection, which dates from 1969-1993, consists of printed ephemera, manual drafts,...
Dates: 1969-1977, 1981-1993; Majority of material found within 1981-1990
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Esther (Hutchings) Hebrew Western Airlines Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2021-12-10
Contents of the Collection The Esther (Hutchings) Hebrew Western Airlines Flight Attendant Collection consists of textual and visual materials gathered by Hebrew during her career as a stewardess for Western Airlines (WAL) in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The materials illuminate the work and life of flight attendants in the mid-twentieth century. The collection is organized in two series: Western Airlines career-related materials and other airlines. There are several files of textual materials related...
Dates: 1945-1951, undated
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

Carl Latchaw Boeing Company Employee Identification Card Collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2019-04-22
Content Description The Carl Latchaw Boeing Company Employee Identification Card Collection is a small collection consisting of membership and identification cards from various Boeing employees dating from 1943-1970. The cards include: a Boeing Scooters and Bicycles operator's permit for Ivor Crowhurst, Renton Division, 1945; a Boeing Membership Assocation card for the Launch Systems Branch for Ivor Crowhurst, 1970; a Boeing Employees' Association membership card for the Wichita Division for Bert...
Dates: 1943-1970
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Alda Jane Lewis Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-03-19
Abstract

Alda Jane Lewis (1923-2012) was born in Ohio and worked as a United Airlines flight attendant. The collection contains photographs, manuscripts, reports, maps, personnel records, and brochures collected during her career.

Dates: 1939-1984
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

Velda King Mapelli Air Racing Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-06-11
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...
Dates: 1969-1989
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Maude McClaine Pilot Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1983-11-14
Content Description The Maude McClaine Pilot Collection is a small collection documenting McClaine's aviation career based out of Spokane, Washington in the 1930s. Present in the collection are: her circa 1929 pilot's license application drafts; various pilot licenses and identity cards; membership cards for Mamer Flying Service and Aviation Country Clubs, Inc.; a "fledgling certificate" from Standard Oil Company of California; her pilot's logbook spanning 1929-1937; six photographs, primarily portraits of...
Dates: 1915-1983; Majority of material found within 1929-1942
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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