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This photograph shows Amelia Earhart Putnam and Laura Houghtaling Ingalls, descending from a TWA "Sky Chief" airplane that stopped briefly at the municipal airport in Wichita, Kansas. The two female aviators were headed for Los Angeles, California.
Date: August 19, 1935
Item Number: 559
Call Number: B Earhart, Amelia *4
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 559
Business and Industry - Aviation - Airlines
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Pilots
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Community services - Airports and Railroads
Date - 1930s - 1935
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Objects and Artifacts - Distribution & Transportation Artifacts - Aerospace Transportation, Equipment - Airplane
People - Notable Kansans - Earhart, Amelia 1897-1937
People - Notable People - Ingalls, Laura
Places - Cities and towns - Wichita
Places - Counties - Sedgwick
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Transportation - Air Travel - Aeroplanes
Type of Material - Photographs
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