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Southern, Neta Snook (1896-1991) I Taught Amelia to fly

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07243.005 Author/Creator: Southern, Neta Snook (1896-1991) Place Written: s.l. Type: Book signed Date: 1974 Pagination: 1 v. : 169 p. : ill. ; 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Order a Copy

First edition, published by Vantage Press. Signed copy.
Southern's story of her days as an aviation pioneer and teacher of Amelia Earhart.

Anita (Neta) Snook Southern was Amelia Earhart's flight instructor from 1920 to about 1922. She began flying in 1917 and attended the Curtiss School of Aviation in New Port News, Va in 1918. After the school closed due to flying restrictions during WW I, Snook moved West to Southern California where she worked as a flight instructor and taught Amelia Earhart.

Southern, Neta Snook, 1896-1991
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937

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