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Columbus, OH native Jerrie Mock carried signed envelopes known as First Day Covers with her during her historic 1964 world flight. She left Columbus on March 19, 1964 in a used Cessna plane that she named Charlie and returned on April 17, 1964 to…

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Pilot Ann H. Pellegreno carried this First Day Cover during her 1967 Round-the-World flight. She and her three-person crew followed Amelia Earhart's planned path around the equator in honor of the 30th anniversary of the disappearance of Earhart and…

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Joan Merriam Smith carried this First Day Cover on her historic 1964 Round-the-World flight. She took off from Long Beach, CA on March 17, 1964 and followed Amelia Earhart's intended path around the equator. When Smith returned to California on May…

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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,…

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A tan dress worn by Ruby as a child.

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Black and white photograph of seven Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) pilots, all in uniform, walking across an airfield with multiple planes in the background. in the foreground of the image is the nose and propeller of a single-engine…

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Black and white photograph of Martha Ann Reading (laying under wing) and Geraldine "Jerri" Sloan Truhill (squatting next to plane) working on their plane before the 1958 All-Woman Transcontinental Air Race, also known as the Powder Puff…

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Black and white photograph of Jackie Cochran, wearing trousers and suit blazer with a lapel pin visible, standing in front of the propeller of her Staggerwing Beech plane. The engine has flowers draped over it. Jackie is holding something in her left…

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Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran standing in the cockpit of a T-38 plane.

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Black and white photograph of Elisabeth Borelli wearing a dark flight suit and holding a helmet underneath her right arm. Behind her is a plane. The photo is inscribed in ink, "My best wishes to American pilots Elisabeth Borelli 1978"

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'Black and white photograph of Anna-Marie Peltier wearing dark trousers and three-quarter jacket. She stands with her arms crossed and wears sunglasses. Behind her is a plane and snowy mountains.

Peltier was an F-27 captain for the Air Intern in…

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'Black and white photograph of Baroness Raymonde de la Roche (Elise de la Roche) seated at the wheel of an early biplane. She wears a dark knit cap and a dark knit sweater.

Baroness de la Roche is the first woman in the world to have earned a…

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Color photograph, aerial view of Beechcraft single-engine planes on an airfield next to a building that reads "Beechcraft" in red letters on the side. A crowd of people stands in the center of the airfield.

The Spanish Fleet was delivered by…

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Color photograph of Louise Sacchi wearing a dress shirt and a vest, standing with her hand on the tail of a yellow, white, and black Beechcraft airplane. Tail number E-24-26.

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'Black and white photograph of Virginia Thomas wearing a dark skirt, checkered top, and with a fur wrap around her upper arms. She has one hand on the propeller of a plane and one hand behind her back. She is wearing an Amelia Earhart medallion…

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'Black and white photograph of Virginia Thomas wearing a collared blazer and holding a wooden trophy with a winged victory figure at the top.

The caption on the back of the photograph reads,
"Ohio Achievement Award - 1956
Joined 99s - 1947"

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Black and white photograph of Louise Sacchi wearing coveralls and sunglasses, standing in front of a single-engine Cessna 140 plane.

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Black and white photograph of Jackie Cochran wearing flight suit and hat, seated in the cockpit of a T-38A supersonic jet. Standing on the ladder of the jet is Chuck Yeager, wearing flight suit and garrison cap.

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Postcard featuring a sepia-toned photograph of Alys McKey Bryant wearing trousers, buttoned shirt, flight goggles, and gloves. She stands with one arm resting on part of a Curtiss biplane on July 31, 1913 around 3 P.M. in Vancouver, British Columbia,…

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Black and white photograph of Martha Ann Reading (right) and Jerri Truhill seated in the cockpit of their plane after the Dallas Doll Derby. Jerri is reaching out and lifting up her son David, who has his back to the camera.

Caption on the back of…

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Black and white photograph of Jerri Truhill wearing a Lycra sleeveless jumpsuit, holding a helmet. She is standing on the wing of a plane.

Handwritten caption on the back of the photograph reads, "Bea: The Lycra Flight Suit designed by John…

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Black and white image of Page Shamburger wearing a buttoned shirt and a raincoat standing outside.

Caption stamped on the back reads "Photography by Budd 145 West 71st St. New York 23, NY"

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'Black and white photograph of President John F. Kennedy, wearing a suit and tie, standing outside a door at the White House and holding an envelope in his right hand. Also with him are, left to right, Blanche Noyes, Louise Smith, and Virginia…
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