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Left to right: Burke Lakefront Airport Commissioner Michael Barth, IWASM Director Joan Hrubec, IWASM President Connie Luhta, Cheryl Ginsberg (granddaughter of Connie Luhta’s 1966 Powder Puff Derby co-pilot Janet Page) Cuyahoga County Commissioner…

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A group of Ninety-Nines gathers in a hotel room during the 1976 Ninety-Nines Convention to discuss the proposed Ninety-Nines Museum, which would later become IWASM.

IWASM's first president Doris Scott sits reclined on the bed in the center,…

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The IWASM Board meeting attendees at the May 1991 Annual Meeting. The meeting took place in the exhibit area of the Asahel Wright Home, Centerville, OH.

From left to right, front row: Sarah Byrn Rickman, Bernice "B" Steadman, Nancy Hopkins Tier,…

EDNA-G.-WHYTE-MS-006.pdf
The Edna Gardner Whyte Collection was accessioned August 8, 1992. The collection fills 31 folders in 2 Hollinger boxes; it comes from two sources that were inadvertently comingled in the early stages of processing. Some of the material comes from the…

CAROLYN-WEST-MS-005.pdf
The Carolyn Jean West Collection was accessioned into the International Women's Air & Space Museum in June 1996. One box of memorabilia from Mrs. West was donated by her daughter, Jacquelyn West Hillier, and delivered by her daughter-in-law,…

ALMA-S-WERFELMAN-MS-003.pdf
The Alma Salmon Werfelman Collection was accessioned into IWASM on July 22, 1994. The material was donated by Lillian Salmon Ochiltree in memory of her sister. The material from the years 1929-1930 fills one small Hollinger box and is organized as…

MARY-VON-MACH-MS-013.pdf
The Mary E. Von Mach Collection was accessioned into IWASM in May 1975. The papers and objects were donated by Mary Von Mach to the Museum Trust of the Ninety-Nines which formed the beginning of the International Women’s Air & Space Museum. The…

SAWTELLE-MS-007.pdf
The Luella Daniels Sawtelle Collection was processed and accessioned in May, 1999. The collection is housed in 2 boxes (one is oversized) and fills 38 folders divided into 19 series arranged primarily chronologically and by type of material. The…

TRACY-PILURS-MS-008.pdf
The Tracy Pilurs Collection was accessioned into IWASM in November and December 1999. The material was donated by Tracy and delivered by three of her children, Tom and Jim Pilurs and Alexis Boilini-Levy. The papers in the collection date from 1942…

BARBARA-S-PARKER-MS-004.pdf
The Barbara Southgate Parker Collection was accessioned into the International Women's Air & Space Museum in December 1991. The box of memorabilia is from the estate of Mrs. Parker and was donated by her step-niece and co-executor, Myra Bowers. …

RUTH-NICHOLS-MS-001.pdf
The Ruth Nichols Collection was accessioned into IWASM in May,1979. The material was donated by The New England Section Connecticut Chapter of The Ninety-Nines, Inc. The 99s which is an international organization of licensed women pilots was founded…

MERCURY-13-MS-012.pdf
The Mercury 13 Collection is based on several ladies collections and relates to their participation in the Mercury testing program.

The material fills 6 Hollinger boxes and 5 folders.

There are no restrictions on the use of these materials.…

MYRTLE-CAGLE-MS-011.pdf
The Myrtle K Thompson Collection was accessioned into the International Women’s Air and Space Museum in May 2007. The memorabilia was brought to the International Women’s Air and Space Museum in March 2006 and a certificate of gift signed May 2006 by…

MARION-C-BROMLEY-MS-002.pdf
The Marion Coddington Bromley Collection was accessioned into IWASM on July 28, 1994. The material was donated by Marion Bromley and is dated from 1931 to 1985. The material fills one Hollinger box and is organized as follows:

1. Pilot Log…

RUTH-ALEXANDER-MS-009.pdf
The Ruth Alexander Collection was accessioned into IWASM in December 1991. Juanita Andrews, whose stepfather was married to Ruth Alexander at the time of her death, donated the material. The papers in the collection date from 1929 to 1930 and are…

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Class of 44-2
"Everybody's out of step but Le Fevre" Deceased

Fifinella.jpg
Fifinella was the official mascot of the Women Airforce Service Pilots.

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Julia Clark sitting in an open cockpit in her plane.

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Helen MacCloskey and Helen Richey sit on a plane at the Cord Cup National Air Derby on Saturday August 20, 1932 in Washington, D.C. The Cord Cup National Air Derby was a transcontinental air race that had pilots beginning in Washington D.C. and Los…

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Mary Haizlip waves from her American Eagle plane. She is about to take off as a participant in the 1929 First Women's Air Derby from California to Ohio. It lasted from August 18 to August 26. The pioneer aviatrix was the second woman to receive…

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Evelyn "Bobbi" Trout was an early aviator who participated in the 1929 Women's Air Derby. In this picture from 1929, Trout is modeling a newly designed electrically-heated flying suit. Trout and Elinor Smith were the first women's team to set the…

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Bessie Coleman in a military uniform stands in front of an airplane's front rudder. Coleman was the first African American female pilot and first African American to hold an international pilot license.

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A portrait of Bessie Coleman, the first African American female pilot and first African American to hold an international pilot license.
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