Guide to the Elizabeth M. Karcher Postcard MSS.3282
Karcher, Elizabeth M.
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
March 2011
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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Elizabeth M. Karcher Postcard
- Unit ID:
MSS.3282
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.05 Linear feet
- Dates:
1943 February 19
- Abstract:
Postcard from Elizabeth ("Betty") M. Karcher in Alhambra, California, on 19 February 1943, to her family in Battle Creek. Michigan, telling them that she would be starting an aircraft drafting course the following month.
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None
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2008
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Elizabeth M. Karcher Postcard, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
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Martha Bace, 2011
Biographical/Historical note
Elizabeth ("Betty") M. Karcher was the only child of Lonn J. and Lela M. Karcher, born 11 August 1913, in Battle Creek, Michigan. In 1943, she applied for an aircraft drafting course with Vega Aircraft Corporation, a subsidiary of Lockheed Aircraft Company in Pasadena, California. She died on 31 January 1997 in Sedona, Arizona.
Scope and Contents note
The collection contains a postcard from Elizabeth ("Betty") M. Karcher in Alhambra, California, on 19 February 1943, to her family in Battle Creek. Michigan, telling them that she would be starting an aircraft drafting course the following month. She also explains that upon starting the course she would become an employee of a company called Vega Aircraft, a subsidiary of the Lockheed Aircraft Company responsible for much of its parent company's production in World War II. She says that she has to pass a physical exam, an intelligence test, and be accepted by a Vega interviewer.
Postcard Box SC0066 Folder 3282.01