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After her second transatlantic flight, Earhart continued to set out on record-breaking trips. Only two months after returning to America in June 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo across the North American continent and back. She also found…

Frank Hawks (1897–1938) took Amelia Earhart on her first airplane ride in 1921. An ex-Army officer, he worked at an airstrip in Los Angeles, where he gave flying lessons and performed stunts in local air shows. Although the flight excited her, she…

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.

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

This photograph shows Earhart’s arrival in New York City on June 20, 1932. Thousands waited to see her. Mayor James Walker greeted her with a large bouquet of red roses and rode with her up Broadway amid confetti and tickertape to City Hall. There,…

Amelia Earhart, dressed in flying suit, standing on steps on left side of nose of her Lockheed 5B Vega amidst a crowd of people at Culmore, North Ireland after her historic solo flight across the Atlantic from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, c. May 21,…

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…

On May 21, 1932—exactly five years to the day after Charles Lindbergh’s historic transatlantic flight—Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. This photograph shows her shaking hands with Dan McCallon, the Irish farmer who 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…

The last photo taken of Amelia before takeoff