Marcia Rickenbacker Collection
Content Description
This collection contains an oral history interview with Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's daughter Marcie. The interview, on two audiotapes and transcribed, was conducted by Dr. David Lewis on October 8, 1998. The interview recounts the last days of Eddie and Adelaide Rickenbacker, and general family history.
The collection also includes 9 photocopies of pictures of the rescue of Rickenbacker in 1942, one film print, and a copy of the film Captain Eddie. There is also a folder of photographs of furniture from the Rickenbacker house.
Dates
- 1998
- 1942
Creator
- Lewis, W. David (Walter David), 1931-2007 (Interviewer, Person)
Biographical / Historical
Marcia Rickenbacker is the daughter of David Edward Rickenbacker, and the granddaughter of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and Adelaide Frost Rickenbacker. In 1942, Captain Rickenbacker was rescued after being lost at sea for three weeks.
Extent
.5 Cubic Feet (One half-sized letter-length document box, one oversize folder, one film cannister)
Language of Materials
English
Processing Information
Processed by Catherine Conner, 10/12/99.
Creator
- Lewis, W. David (Walter David), 1931-2007 (Interviewer, Person)
- Rickenbacker, Marcia Frost (Interviewee, Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Marcia Rickenbacker Collection
- Subtitle
- Record Group 344
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid added to ArchivesSpace by Elizabeth Bates
- Date
- July 10, 2020
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Auburn University Special Collections and Archives Repository
Auburn University
Ralph Brown Draughon Library
231 Mell Street
Auburn Alabama 36849
334-844-1732
archives@auburn.edu
