Preview
Source Collection
Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie collection, Special Collections Department, University Libraries, University of Memphis
Identifier
sc.0491.001_028.012
Description
Phoebe Omlie, Memphis aviatrix, and Mrs. Walter Fain, leaving on a speaking tour on behalf of the Franklin Roosevelt presidential campaign on October 24,1932. Image by Goodman Commercial Photographer, Memphis, Tennessee.
In 1932, Phoebe Omlie decided to campaign for Franklin D. Roosevelt and hit the campaign trail with Miss Memphis (aircraft). During the summer, she stumps in 16 different states logging more than 20,000 miles.
FDR rewarded hOmlie by appointing Pher as a special assistant for air intelligence of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. She was the first woman to hold a position of any consequence in any of the government's aviation bureaux.
Date Created
2023
Date
1932 October 24
Recommended Citation
"Phoebe Omlie and Mrs. Walter Fain, 1932" (2023). Images. 8.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-phoebefomlie1/8
Keywords
Omlie, Phoebe Fairgrave, 1902-1975--Photographs.
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