Collection Summary
Shepherd, Marguerite
Marguerite Shepherd papers
1924-1980
08502
2.27 cubic ft. (4 boxes)
University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.
English
Papers of the longtime secretary to Eddie Rickenbacker, who was a pioneer in air transportation and an executive in the airline industry and the automotive industry.
Biography of Marguerite ShepherdMarguerite “Sheppy” Shepherd (1894-1983) was Eddie Rickenbacker’s longtime personal secretary. Rickenbacker (1890-1973) was an American fighter ace in World War I, race car driver, automotive designer, government consultant in military matters, pioneer in air transportation, and longtime head of Eastern Air Lines. Marguerite Shepherd was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and, in 1923, became Rickenbacker’s secretary at the Rickenbacker Motor Car Company in Detroit, Michigan. In later years, she became his executive secretary at Cadillac Motor Company, Fokker Aircraft Company, American Airways, and Eastern Air Lines. Shepherd was for many years a member of the Seraphic Secretaries of America and the Women’s Traffic Club of Greater New York.
Scope and ContentThe collection contains business correspondence of Marguerite Shepherd; photographs of Shepherd, Eddie Rickenbacker, Eastern Air Lines events and personnel, and tributes to Rickenbacker; and programs, speeches, newspaper clippings, and other printed material about Eastern Air Lines, the dedication of Rickenbacker Air Force Base, and the life and death of Eddie Rickenbacker. There are also books and magazines by and about Rickenbacker and scripts for radio interviews with Shepherd regarding her secretarial career and her membership in the Seraphic Secretaries of America.
Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
Copyright Information
The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
Related Materials
There are no known other archival collections created by Marguerite Shepherd at the date of processing.
Acquisition Information
The collection was received from Marguerite Shepherd in 1981 and from the Marguerite Shepherd estate in 1983.
The collection was arranged and described by D. Claudia Thompson in June 2018.
Preferred Citation
Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
Access Terms
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973.
Whittaker, James C., 1901-
Eastern Air Lines.
Seraphic Society.
Rickenbacker Air Force Base.
Aircraft accidents -- Pacific Ocean -- 1940-1950.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American -- Personal narratives.
Air pilots, Military -- United States.
Air pilots -- United States.
Air pilots -- American -- 1930-1940.
Secretaries -- Societies, etc.
Secretaries -- United States.
Automobile industry and trade -- United States -- Management.
Transportation.
Business, Industry, Labor, and Commerce.
Clubs and Societies
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Container List
Series I. Papers and Photographs
1
Correspondence - Business
1939-1979, undated
1
Eastern Air Lines (Histories, clippings, programs, newsletters, Christmas greetings, retired pilots' list)
1933-1978
1
Eastern Air Lines - "Aviation's Earliest Years in Jacksonville, 1878-1935" by John P. Ingle
1977
4
Eastern Air Lines - Newspapers
1978
1
Eastern Air Lines - Publications - "Great Silver Fleet News" (incomplete run)
1938-1959
1
Eastern Air Lines - Silver Anniversary (Airlanes Magazine)
1953
1
Photographs - Aviation Celebrities and Executives (Paul Brattain; Reed Chambers; Harris Hanshue; Dick Merrill; T.E. Myers; Sidney Shannon; Al Williams; Alan Winslow; others)
1935, undated
1
Photographs - Rickenbacker, Eddie and Others
1934-1942, 1970
2
Photographs - Rickenbacker Memorials
1977, 1979
2
Photographs - Shepherd, Marguerite and Others (Amelia Earhart, Eddie Rickenbacker, others)
1924-1980
2
Rickenbacker Air Force Base - Correspondence
1974-1979
4
Rickenbacker Air Force Base - Newspapers
1976-1979
2
Rickenbacker Air Force Base - Printed Material
1979-1980
2
Rickenbacker Air Force Base - Renaming - Press Release, Program, Speeches
1974
2, 4
Rickenbacker Air Force Base - Renaming - Printed Material
1974
2
Rickenbacker, Eddie - Automobiles and Racing
1929-1973
2, 4
Rickenbacker, Eddie - Death
1973-1978
2
Rickenbacker, Eddie - General Biographical
1945-1978
2
Rickenbacker, Eddie - Honors
1968-1976
2
Rickenbacker, Eddie - Writings of (Address at SAE Dinner; "I Believe In Prayer"; Major Raoul Lufbery; "Home of My Boyhood"; "Origination of the 'Hat-In-the-Ring'"; "My Most Memorable Christmas")
1943-1950, undated
4
Rickenbacker, Eddie - Writings of - "Pacific Mission" (Life Magazine)
1943
2
Rickenbacker Family (Adelaide, William)
1977, undated
2
Seraphic Secretaries (Minutes, news clippings)
circa 1940-1968
2
Seraphic Secretaries - Radio Scripts
1943-1955
2
Shepherd, Marguerite - General Biographical
1942-crica 1980
2
Whittaker, James - Statement from "Pacific Mission"
1943
Series II. Books by and about Eddie Rickenbacker
3
Adamson, Hans Christian, Eddie Rickenbacker,
1946
3
Farr, Finis, Rickenbacker's Luck: An American Life
1979
3
Fokker, Anthony H.G. and Bruce Gould, Flying Dutchman: The Life of Anthony Fokker
1931
3
Holland, Norman, Southern Sky Trails
1944
3
McLeod, Carroll, The Path of the "Prop"
1935
3
Rickenbacker, Edward V., Rickenbacker: An Autobiography
1967
3
Serling, Robert J., From the Captain to the Colonel
1980
3
"Titan", Success Book: A Pocket Treasury of Inspiration
1937
3
Williams, Al, Airpower
1940
Series III. Artifacts
2
Lapel Pins - "Welcome 'Captain Eddie', Columbus, Ohio
1945
2
Medal - Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, Aviation Hall of Fame
undated
2
Paperweight - Eastern Air Lines, Fifty Years of Service (with detachable mount)
1978
2
Pilot's Cap Badge - Eastern Air Lines
undated