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Jeannette Piccard papers

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
M95
Repository:
Bryn Mawr College
Extent:
5 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Jeannette Piccard papers, Special Collections Department, Bryn Mawr College Library
Date:
1960-1980 (inclusive) and 1960-1980 (bulk)
Form:
biographies (documents)
Abstract:
Jeannette Ridlon Piccard, BMC class of 1918, was the first woman licensed to pilot a balloon in the United States, and the first woman to enter the stratosphere (with a flight that reached 57, 559 feet). She served as a consultant and lecturer for NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center from 1964-1970. At the age of 79 Piccard was ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church, one of the "Philadelphia Eleven"- the first ordained female priests. The material in this collection consists of correspondence, writings by Picard, and writings of others, regarding her personal, religious, and aeronautical life.

The Jeannette Piccard papers consist of correspondence, writings by Picard, and writings of others, regarding her personal, religious, and aeronautical life.

Donor: Ruth Elizabeth Piccard

Publisher
Bryn Mawr College
Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

The Jeannette Piccard Papers are the physical property of Bryn Mawr College Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to authors' heirs and assigns.

Collection Inventory

1920s.
1940s.
1950s.
1960s.
1970s.
1980s.
1920s.
1930s.
1940s.
1950s.
1960s.
1970s.
1980s.
1960s.
1980s.
Undated.

Autobiographical.
Box 2 Folder 1-14
Surveys.
Drafts.
Text.
Aeronautical.
Box 3 Folder 1-5
Religious.
Box 2 Folder 15-30
Miscellaneous.
Series III: Lectures.

Materials collected by relatives.
Jeannette Piccard.
Others.
Series V: Photos.
Series VI: Film & Digital.

Brochures.
Programs.
Name Tags.
Notebooks.

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