May 2, 2002. © 2019 Purdue University.All Rights Reserved. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. The University helped to finance her first airplane. Having received the remaining family collection of Amelia Earhart memorabilia on May 2, Purdue Libraries has begun a purposeful effort to provide public access to items of wide interest. The George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers at Purdue is the largest repository of materials relating to the iconic aviator. Sammie Morris speaks about the George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers at Purdue University, the world's largest collection of papers related to the American aviation pioneer. MSP 188, Collection of Amelia Earhart Related Materials, Archives and Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries Elliott and Earhart sat down and worked out the details. Earhart served on the university faculty as a career counselor and an adviser in aeronautics. Types of materials include correspondence, ephemera, administrative reports, photographs, publicity materials, and speeches. And today there is digital access to the Amelia Earhart Collection. Ms. Original song performed at Amelia Earhart collection ceremony. The Amelia Earhart at Purdue papers document Amelia Earhart's arrival at Purdue University, her time there, and the efforts to memorialize Earhart after her disappearance. The George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers at Purdue University Library, Special Collections is the world's largest, most comprehensive repository of materials relating to the life, career and mysterious disappearance of this famous aviatrix. Most of my research was done by examining primary source documents from the George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers. The Earhart collection. Courtesy Purdue University Libraries, The installation at Purdue’s Union Club Hotel is especially appropriate. The collection includes documents related to Earhart's 1932 solo Atlantic flight, her second and fatal attempt at a world flight in 1937, and items related to her time at Purdue. Purdue University, 610 Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, 765-494-4600 Purdue University Libraries is a congressionally designated depository for U.S. Government information. – Purdue University today (Thursday, 5/2) enlarged its longstanding association with Amelia Earhart by becoming the largest, most comprehensive repository of materials relating to the life, career and mysterious disappearance of the famous aviator. The focus of my research examined Earhart’s time at Purdue where she worked in the Department of Aeronautics as well as a consultant in careers for women. An equal access/equal opportunity university. My research began with the question of what Amelia Earhart’s impact was on Purdue University. Access to the government information collection is open to the public. In April of 1936 an Amelia Earhart Fund for Aeronautical Research was created with the Purdue Research Foundation.

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