Name/Title
Folder relating to 'Women's Transcontinental Air Race', 1952Entry/Object ID
2011.31.9Scope and Content
Acc. No. 11.31.9
Subject Category: City of Alameda
Date or Period: 1952
Object: Folder, file
Description: Acid free legal size manila file folder, labelled 'Air Race', with clippings and typed documents
Size: L 9" X w 14 1/2“
History of Object:
Folder with clippings and documents pertaining to the sixth Ninety-Niners Women's Transcontinental Air Race, July 6-9, 1952. Includes waver signed by the Alameda participants, Lorene E. Misener and Ann Rodgers, who participated with an aircraft dubbed 'The City of Alameda' and sponsored by the City. The plane took of from NAS to go to the starting point of the race. Other documents show the mayor's office (Mayor Frank Osborn) wrote to various mayors of cities en-route to arrange hospitality.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Date: June 18, 2011