Grace Huntington Collection

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Personal papers and autobiographical manuscript of Grace Goodhue Huntington.

Flying Taylorcraft and Fairchild light planes, Grace Goodhue Huntington (1913-1948), set two altitude records and performed various scientific experiments on high altitude flights. She was employed as an instrument and flight instructor for the Paul Mantz Air Service. An author as well as a flyer, Huntington wrote verse, songs, film scripts and an autobiographical manuscript that details the difficulties experienced by women aviators in the 1930s and 1940s.

Identifier

NASM.2001.0056

Date

1913-1948

Provenance

Berkeley Brandt, III, Gift, 2001, NASM.2001.0056

Extent

3.71 Gigabytes

Archival Repository

National Air and Space Museum Archives

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of business and personal correspondence, photographs, licenses, a record report, a scrapbook, and copies of Huntington's autobiographical manuscript, "Please Let Me Fly!" Also included is a CD with surrogate scans of some of the physical material of this collection.

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Alphabetically arranged by subject.

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Citation

Grace Huntington Collection, NASM.2001.0056, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Topics

Aeronautics
Women air pilots
Women in aeronautics
Fairchild 24
Demonstration record

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