Identity elements
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Collection
Title
Althea "Gerry" Lister papers
Date(s)
- 1935-1977 (Creation)
Extent
1.00 linear feet (1 record storage carton)
Name of creator
Biographical history
Althea "Gerry" Lister was secretary to V.E. Chenea, general traffic manager of Pan American World Airways, Assistant to Mr. Harold W. Houston, passenger service manager, Historian and Curator of Clipper Hall (the Pan Am museum at John F Kennedy International Airport), and a charter member of the Ninety-Niners (99ers) (the female pilot’s group). She retired from Pan Am in 1974.
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
This collection consists of the papers of Althea “Gerry” Lister from 1935 to 1997. It contains: biographical information pertaining to Lister’s 45 year career at Pan American World Airways; “Along Air Avenues,” an unpublished manuscript that provides a detailed account of Pan Am’s maintenance and safety operations; a list of survey and inaugural flights created by Lister; a list of McCoy print purchasers and prices created by Lister; and a chronology of Pan Am’s aircraft fleet created by Lister. The papers include certificates, correspondence, photographs, and press clippings.
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use elements
Conditions governing access
This collection is open for research.
Physical access
This collection is kept in an off-campus storage facility. Please contact Special Collections at asc.library@miami.edu with the boxes you are interested in prior to your visit, and allow up to 1 week for delivery of materials.
Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
Althea Lister Papers Finding Aid © 2014 University of Miami. All rights reserved. Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to asc.library@miami.edu.
Languages of the material
- English
Scripts of the material
- Latin
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Generated finding aid
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Existence and location of copies
Related archival materials
Related descriptions
- F. Charles Ruegg papers
- Pan American World Airways, Inc. records
- World Wings International, Inc. Records
- Pan American World Airways, Inc. collection
- Pan Am Historical Foundation, Inc. records
- Donald Thomson papers
- William C. House papers
- Humphrey W. Toomey Papers
- W.R. Peters Pan Am Photograph collection
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Place access points
Name access points
- Pan American World Airways, Inc. (Subject)