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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Amelia Earhart Around-the-World Flight Correspondence File [W.T. Miller]
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2011.0006
- Creators:
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Miller, W. T.
- Dates:
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bulk 1936 - 1940
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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0.05 Cubic feet1 folder
- Repository:
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) in 1928 was the first woman to fly (as a passenger) across the Atlantic, and in 1932 the first woman (and second person, after Charles Lindbergh) to fly solo and nonstop across that ocean. She flew many record flights, published several books and accomplished much for women in aviation. This collection consists of a file of correspondence, telegrams, official Coast Guard dispatches from the USS Itasca, and reports relating to the planning of Amelia Earhart's 1937 flight and the naval search for her after her disappearance.
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a file of correspondence (predominantly carbon copies), telegrams, official Coast Guard dispatches from the USS Itasca, and reports relating to the planning of Amelia Earhart's 1937 flight and the naval search for her after her disappearance. The file contains correspondence signed by George Putnam and some of the correspondence relates to the radio frequencies that were to be used/were used by Earhart during her trip. This file evidently belonged to W. T. Miller, who was Airways Superintendent at the Bureau of Air Commerce, United States Department of Commerce. Miller was very involved in asserting sovereignty over Pacific Islands, such as Howland, during the late 1930s.
Arrangement
Arrangement
Collection is in original reverse chronological order.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) in 1928 was the first woman to fly (as a passenger) across the Atlantic, and in 1932 the first woman (and second person, after Charles Lindbergh) to fly solo and nonstop across that ocean. She flew many record flights, published several books and accomplished much for women in aviation before attempting on June 1, 1937, an around-the-world flight from Miami, Florida in a twin-engine Lockheed Electra. She and navigator Frederick J. Noonan were flying from Lae, New Guinea to Howland Island when they disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937. A exhaustive sea and air search, ordered by President Franklin Roosevelt, was unsuccessful in locating Earhart and Noonan.
Administration
Author
Patricia Williams, 2011; updated by Melissa A. N. Keiser, 2024
Immediate Source of Acquisition
John Davison, Gift, 2010, NASM.2011.0006
Processing Information
Arranged and described by Patricia Williams, 2011. Encoded by Jessamyn Lloyd, 2022, and Melissa A. N. Keiser, 2024.
Digital Content
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Preferred Citation
Amelia Earhart Around-the-World Flight Correspondence File [W.T. Miller], NASM.2011.0006, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Keywords
| Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Women in aeronautics | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Flights around the world | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Endurance flights | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Correspondence | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Telegrams | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Newspapers | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Reports | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Noonan, Frederick | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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