National Air and Space Museum Archives

Jeannette Piccard Documents and Copy Prints

Summary

Collection ID:
NASM.2019.0045
Creators:
Piccard, Jeanette.
Dates:
1979
1930s
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
0.01 Cubic feet
One legal folder.
Repository:
This collection consists of items sent from Jeannette Piccard to National Air and Space Museum curator Claudia Oakes about her 1934 flight.

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the following: a 1979 letter from Jeannette Piccard to National Air and Space Museum curator Claudia Oakes, about her flight; a four page description by Piccard about the October 23, 1934 flight; a copy of a page of the flight log; and copy negatives and prints of 13 images, presumably lent by Piccard to the Museum for copying.

Arrangement

Arrangement
No arrangement.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
Jeannette Piccard (1895 - 1981) was the first women to reach the stratosphere. Piccard earned her balloon license in the summer of 1934, and on October 23rd of that year she, along with her husband Jean Piccard, lifted off in their balloon, A Century of Progress. Jeannette Piccard piloted the balloon to a height of 57,979 feet, while Jean Piccard was the scientific observer. With this flight Jeannette Piccard became the holder of the women's altitude record; she held this record until Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova's space flight in 1963.

Administration

Author
Patti WIlliams
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Jeannette Piccard, Gift, 1979, NASM.2019.0045
Processing Information
Arranged, described, and encoded by Patti Williams, 2020.

Digital Content


Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Use
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Preferred Citation
Jeannette Piccard Documents and Copy Prints, NASM.2019.0045, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Keywords

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