Air Racing

File — Box: 1, Folder: 4

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

1-7: group photo of Alberta Nicholson, Mary Kollborn, Nancy Streeter(?), Lila Tieldin(?), Barbara Barlow, in the Powder Puff Derby.
8: Maxine Nielson and Alberta Nicholson at the finish of the 1965 El Cajun to Chattenooga race.
9: Maxine Nielson and Alberta.
10: Beatrice Edgerly Macpherson with co-pilot Alberta Nicholson in the 1955 Longbeach to Springfield, Mass. race. (Alberta's first race.)
11: Alberta and unidientified near plane #7.
12a-b: (numberred twice) Alberta and Maxine Nielson.
13: Jocile Eddleman handing a certificate to Alberta and June Kaiser during Powder Puff Derby. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
14: Alberta by unidentified plane.
15: Alberta and (?) boarding "Governor's Plane".
16: portrait of Alberta with plane.
17: Maxine Nielson and Alberta at check point on race?

Dates

circa 1943-1980

Conditions Governing Access

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