Anne Lyon Haight papers

2013-127-0

Collection

Identifier: 2013-127-0

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Anne Lyon Haight papers (2013-127-0) consist of newspaper clippings, letters, airline brochures, memorabilia, and photographs of airplane trips taken by Mrs. Sherman Haight. These trips include the maiden flight of a Pan-American Clipper seaplane from Miami to Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone in November 1931 that made stops in Cuba, Jamaica and Barranquilla, Columbia and was piloted by Charles Lindbergh. Also a trip on a Pan American Dixie Clipper which was the first commercial passenger trip across the Atlantic, leaving Port Jefferson, Long Island on June 29, 1939. In 1944, Mrs. Haight went to Colombia and Ecuador, South America on a Pan American plane to join Joselyn Crane, a researcher for the New York Zoological Society. And she was on another first - the first Pan American jet flight to Europe - in 1958.

Dates

created: 1931 - 1943
Other: Date acquired: 10/10/2014

Creator

Haight, Anne Lyon (1891-1977) (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Biographical / Historical

Anne Pardee Lyon Haight was in St. Paul, Minnesota, on May 11, 1891. She was educated at the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York.

Haight was an author, collector, and aviation enthusist, and studied Native American culture. She was founding member of the Hroswitha Club. She was credited with starting the Children's Book of the Month Club. She was a member of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, the Women's Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association, the Society of Woman Geographers, and the Women Fly Fishers Club.

During World War I, Haight worked in the American Women's War Relief Hospital in Devonshire, England, and later worked with the Red Cross in Washington, DC.

She flew with Charles Lindbergh on several of his notable flights: she was a passenger on the first trans-Atlantic flight on a Pan-American Clipper in June 1939, and also on the first Clipper flight to South America. She contributed articles about these experiences to several magazines, some of which are documented in this collection. Haight also participated in several American Museum of Natural History-organized research expeditions to the Isthmus of Panama to study Native American civilizations.

She was married to Sherman Post Haight, Sr., with whom she had two sons and a daughter. She died at her home in Litchfield, Connecticut, on August 8, 1977 at the age of 88.