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May Marks the 80th Anniversary of Earhart’s Crossing Atlantic
- May
- 09
May 20-21, 2012 marks the 80th anniversary of Amelia Earhart’s solo crossing of the Atlantic. This was a first for a woman pilot and she did it exactly 5 years after Charles Lindbergh had been the first pilot to solo the Atlantic. Pictured is a note that Amelia wrote to Louise Thaden in the days […]
read moreIWASM Receives Grant From Wolf Aviation Fund!
- May
- 09
IWASM recently received a grant award for the conservation treatment of an Eric Sloane oil portrait of award winning balloonist Constance Wolf! After her death in 1994, IWASM received a monetary bequest from the estate of Constance Wolf and the oil portrait. The portrait is dated 1932, when Constance was 27 years old. Treatment will […]
read moreNews from the Collections Manager
- May
- 09
In April IWASM had two Japanese visitors; they toured the gallery and then picked out Earhart books in the gift shop. One of the men began looking through the IWASM Earhart library books and came across a 1980s Japanese paperback that contained a long article on Amelia. I offered to make a copy of the […]
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