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Portrait of Amelia Earhart on Ivory

George Palmer Putnam & wife, Explorer & Publisher, Amelia Earhart Putnam Aviatrix

Accompanied by her husband, George Palmer Putnam, Amelia Earhart, only solo flier of both Atlanic and Pacific oceans, arrived in New York after an airplane flight across the continent.

The last photo taken of Amelia before takeoff

George Putnam's response to Commander Weems

King Albert meeting Amelia Earhart after she arrived in Brussels

Amelia Earhart's palm print and analysis of her character prepared by Nellie Simmons Meier, 28 June 1933.

Weems wrote this letter to Earhart after her near-disastrous takeoff attempt in Hawaii in 1937. Extra navigation training may not have kept Earhart from disaster, but it might have allowed to her appreciate shortcomings in planning an equipment.

After the Friendship flight, Earhart was flooded with invitations to speak to different groups. Because she had lived outside of Chicago for several years, many invitations came from that area. In mid-July she traveled to Chicago, where she was…

Much experimentation in aeronautical design was occurring at this time. Earhart showed great interest in such work and became involved in testing several new planes. In this photograph she poses in an autogiro, an airplane with a conventional…