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Women in aeronautics

 Subject

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

Found in 55 Collections and/or Records:

Revilo Joe and Bernice Morse Boeing Scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2023-07-11
Contents of the Collection The Revilo Joe and Bernice Morse Boeing Scrapbook is primarily comprised of clippings from various newspapers, but also includes a small amount of printed ephemera, Boeing Company employee memos and policies, and photographs, circa 1939-1945. Topics are mostly war-related, with some pertaining to Boeing Company in general. Of interest are documents that relate to women workers at Boeing, including one on childcare options and one on appearance and uniforms. The scrapbook was compiled by...
Dates: circa 1940-1945
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Murray Stuart and Noel Rae Pilot Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2017-02-23
Abstract

Native Washingtonians Murray Stuart (1909-1960), and Noel Rae (b. 1909), married in 1929 and were both pilots. The collection contains clippings, photographs, correspondence, business records, and certificates relating to both their flight careers and personal lives.

Dates: circa 1920s-1973, 1999
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

Mary M. Oldehoff flight nurse logbook

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 1988-09-13
Contents of the Collection

The collection is comprised of a single logbook for 1944 that documents Mary M. Oldehoff's experience as a flight nurse during World War II.

Dates: 1944
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Norah O'Neill Pilot Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2006-03-03
Abstract

Norah Ellen O'Neill (1949-2017), from Seattle, Washington, was a commercial pilot and an aviation pioneer. The collection contains a scrapbook, book reviews, newsletters and serials, photographs, pilot log books, and correspondence related to her flight career and personal life.

Dates: 1973-2017
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Joann Osterud Airshow Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2021-10-29-A
Overview

Joann Osterud was a stunt pilot who flew in airshows from the late 1970s through the 1990s. Slides, photographs and audiovisual recordings in the collection document her stunt performances from her early career through 1990, including ones in her Stevens Akro plane which is in the Museum's collection.

Dates: 1966-1994, 2000; Majority of material found within 1973-1990
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Joann Osterud Logbooks

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2024-02-08
Content Description The Joann Osterud Logbooks is a collection of seven flight logbooks documenting Osterud's career as a pilot, dating from 1968-1986. The earliest book records Osterud's flights as a student pilot. Flights in the early 1970s include many out of Boeing Field (King County International Airport) in a Cessna 150A. Later logs document her work as a pilot primarily flying at airshows. Planes flown include Piper J-3 Cub and Stephens Akro. Her work for Alaska Airlines from 1975-1978 is...
Dates: 1968-1986
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Joann Osterud Record-Breaking Flight Photograph

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2019-12-09
Content Description The Joann Osterud Record-Breaking Flight Photograph is a small collection consisting of a single photograph depicting of Joann Osterud flying upside-down in her Ultimate Aero 10-300S, July 24, 1991 from Vancouver, B.C. to Vanderhoof, B.C on a record-breaking flight. The photograph is in color and measures 8x10 inches. It is inscribed, "To Clarice and Tom, Thanks! Joann, Vancouver to Vanderhoof, 7/24/91". The people mentioned in the inscription were Clarice Osterud and Tom Hargiss, Joann's...
Dates: 1991 July 24
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Joyce Parker World War II Personal History

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2024-01-19
Content Description The Joyce Parker World War II Personal History is a small collection consisting of an autobiographical narrative by Joyce Parker who worked as a "Rosie the Riveter" at the Boeing Company during World War II, as well as two photographic portraits. The story, which is four handwritten pages in a spiral-bound notebook, explains how teenage girls and women were recruited to work toward the war effort. Parker initially worked as a messenger for the Office of Civilian Defense. Then,...
Dates: circa 1940s, 2005
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Ruth K. (Pellinen) Petrich Photograph Collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2025-06-26
Content Description The Ruth K. (Pellinen) Petrich Photograph Collection is a small collection consisting of 21 photographs and two clippings related to Petrich's time working at the Boeing Company as an assistant to test pilots during World War II. Petrich's wartime work for Boeing primarily consisted of packing parachutes and preparing gear for the company test pilots, and this work is documented through the photographs and clippings. The photographs include black-and-white official Boeing photos,...
Dates: circa 1941-1945
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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