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1960-61 Elaine Brockhouse Scrapbook, Pinecrest FL, William D. Pawley niece
$ 18.45
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Nov. 1960-June 1961 Elaine Brockhouse Scrapbook, Pinecrest FL. One of a series of annual scrapbooks kept by Elaine Brockhouse, 91-year-old niece of William D. Pawley, who initiated the formation of the famous American volunteer group of airmen known as the Flying Tigers who supported China in World War II from an aircraft manufacturing and supply base he organized in India. He was a confidant of Presidents Truman and Eisenhower and U.S. ambassador to Peru and Brazil after World War II.
The scrapbook is 9 X 12 in. and very thick. Includes a 1960 sample ballot sent out by the Republican Party, Youth for Nixon-Lodge brochure by the Floridans for Nixon-Lodge, "Where's Johnny and two other anti-Kennedy brochures, United Fund campaign materials, a Tupperwear hostess recruitment brochure, a "Win the Cold War or Else" Freedom Seminar in Miami program, 1961 Orange Bowl program - Missouri Vs. Navy -- plus 2 ticket stubs, Allapattah Lions Auxiliary party ticket, Museum of Science newsletter, Coral Gables Junior Woman's Club "Hooray for Hollywoood" program, Miami- Jai-Alai program with 2 ticket stubs, Billy Graham Miami crusade News, Advertising Federation of America District Conference in Miami brochure, Lou Walters can-can production at the Carillon Hotel program, U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives signed passes, Sound of Music program with Mary Martin, Wellesley College Alumni Association program, Greater Miami School of Anti-Communism lecture tickets, and programs for the
University of Miami Symphony Orchestra, Patronesses of the Opera, Opera Guild, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Beaux Arts League, , family photos, more. Nice condition.