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Ford (Mary) Personal Papers
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Box 1 of 2

 

Series I: Personal Papers

 

Folder 1 – Office of Personnel Management

Physical Description: Retirement and annuity statements.
 

Folder 2 -- Mary E. Ford Records

Physical Description: Vital statistics; genealogy; correspondence.
 

Folder 3 -- Passports

Physical Description: Eleven U.S. passports, 1947 to 2015.
 

Folder 4 -- Chapters

Physical Description: 1. Scrapbook material to be entered in book. 2. Newspaper articles. 3. Drafts of manuscript (for book?). 4. Photocopy of 1943 Flight Log.
 

Series II: Documents

 

Folder 5 -- ATA (Air Transport Auxiliary)

Physical Description: 1. Photocopies of news articles and photographs. 2. Copy of story, "Seventh Heaven," Geoff Cooke, FlyPast Magazine, 1944; ATA book reviews.
 

Folder 6 -- Mary's ATA Adventures

Physical Description: Copies from ATA website of history, airplanes, people.
 

Folder 7 -- Flight Logs

Physical Description: 1. Pilots Flight Log, 8/9/1941 through July 1952. 2. Royal Air Force Pilot's Flying Log Book, 7/5/1942 through 4/15/1943.
 

Series III: Newspaper Articles

 

Folder 8 -- Newspaper Articles

 

Series IV: Books

 

Women Aloft: The Epic of Flight, Time-Life Books, Mary Hooper quoted page 136.

 

The Forgotten Pilots, Lettice Curtis, Nelson & Saunders, Ltd., 1971, inscribed to Mary.

 

Golden Wings, Alison King, C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd., 1956.

 

Booklet, "Air Transport Auxiliary," 1944.

 

Booklet, "A.T.A. Pilot's Reminder Book," 1943.

 

Box 2 of 2

 

Series V: Scrapbook

 

Folder 1 -- Scrapbook

Physical Description: 10" x 14" scrapbook with fragile loose pages, primarily containing newspaper articles on Mary's flying career; some snapshots; some souvenirs; and some memorabilia.
 

Series VI: Photographs

 

Folder 2 – Photographs (Folder #1 of 2)

Physical Description: . Professional photographs. 2. Publicity photographs from the movie “The Lady Takes a Flyer.”
 

Folder 3 – Photographs (Folder #2 of 2)

Physical Description: 1. Snapshots of England base of operations. 2. Miscellaneous snapshots and photographs.
 

Series VII: Memorabilia

 

DVD "Around the World with Fleetway."

 

DVD "The Lady Takes a Flyer."

 

Postcards

Collection Contents
Box 1 of 2
Series I: Personal Papers
Series II: Documents
Series III: Newspaper Articles
Series IV: Books
Box 2 of 2
Series V: Scrapbook
Series VI: Photographs
Series VII: Memorabilia
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