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Source Collection
Omlie, Phoebe Fairgrave collection, Special Collections Department, University Libraries, University of Memphis
Identifier
sc.0491.001_028.011
Description
Photograph published in the Binghamton Press, Binghamton, New York, on September 17, 1936. The accompanying article "In Flying Campaign for F.D.R.", read: "'Win With Roosevelt!'" That's the slogan Mrs. Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie, noted woman pilot, (right), and Miss Stella Akin, (left), are bringing to Binghamton, New York for a Democratic rally in the Hotel Arlington, under auspices of the local Democratic Organization", The article also noted: "Mrs. Omlie is one of the outstanding women flyers in the country and is piloting a Ranger Fairchild monoplane...Miss Akin was appointed a special assistant to the attorney general and is the first southern woman to hold an important position in the Department of Justice."
Date Created
2023
Date
1936 September 17
Recommended Citation
"Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie and Stella Akin, Binghamton, New York, 1936" (2023). Images. 6.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-phoebefomlie1/6
Keywords
Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie collection, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
