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Jesco von Puttkamer Papers

Collection

Identifier: 1300

Scope and Contents

The contents of this collection include notecards, photocopies of articles, maps, certificates of appreciation, handwritten notes, transcripts of speeches, and other items related to the space program.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1963 - 1972

Found in: Auburn University Special Collections and Archives

R.E. Lambert and Sons Farm Papers

Collection

Identifier: 1305

Scope and Contents

This accession contains both professional and personal papers, photographs, and memorabilia related to R.E. Lambert, founder of R.E. Lambert and Sons, and his family of Darlington, Alabama.

Dates: 1900 - 1960

Found in: Auburn University Special Collections and Archives

Mary E. Reese Papers

Collection — Box: Short Collection 6

Identifier: 0117

Scope and Contents

Consists of Mary E. Reese's handwritten, bound copy of her "Early History of Auburn," one original circular for the Auburn Masonic Female College dated 1852, a photocopy of the legislative act that incorporated Auburn, and a note about the manuscript from Kate Lane, wife of Petrie.

Dates: 1835 - 1861

Found in: Auburn University Special Collections and Archives

Randolph Reynolds Papers

Collection

Identifier: 1321

Content Description This collection contains one scrapbook. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings of the various football games he played in, one letter from December 17, 1904, and other newspaper clippings that show photos of Reynolds and the team. This collection also contains a modern photocopy of a letter dated September 15, 1907 from Reynolds to his little brother, and a copy of the Auburn University Alumni Magazine from ...

Dates: Copyright: March 1876; 1901; 1907; 2012

Found in: Auburn University Special Collections and Archives

Richard Millman Papers

Collection

Identifier: 228

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of newspaper clippings, a projector, photographs from travels, and photographs of watercolor paintings.

Dates: 1962 - 2011

Found in: Auburn University Special Collections and Archives

Hilly Richter German Rocketry Papers

Collection — Box: Short Collection 20

Identifier: 1333

Scope and Contents

This document, entitled "Auftriebs verteilung Richtung flugeltiefe auf grund der theorie der dunnen Profile," explores the theory of rocket lift distribution and flight direction. It contains 164 handwritten pages including a number of charts and graphs.

Dates: January 1, 1942

Found in: Auburn University Special Collections and Archives

Eddie Rickenbacker Papers

Collection

Identifier: 0101

Scope and Contents This collection documents the lives of the Rickenbacker family, particularly Eddie Vernon Rickenbacker. It contains scrapbooks and newspaper clippings, photographs, sound recordings, 16 mm motion pictures, correspondence, diaries, legal documents (original and copies), condolence letters upon Eddie's death, maps, declassified reports to Army Air Force in World War II, other various reports of travels, affidavits taken by movie studio regarding loss of Eddie at sea, publications by and...

Dates: 1909 - 2001

Found in: Auburn University Special Collections and Archives

Marcia Rickenbacker Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 0344

Content Description This collection contains an oral history interview with Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's daughter Marcia. 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...

Dates: 1998; 1942

Found in: Auburn University Special Collections and Archives