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

Amelia Earhart posing in front of her aircraft.

The last photo taken of Amelia before takeoff

Portrait of Amelia Earhart on Ivory

George Putnam's response to Commander Weems

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.

King Albert meeting Amelia Earhart after she arrived in Brussels

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,…

Long view of Amelia Earhart, dressed in flying suit, posing on fuselage 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, 1932. …

Amelia Earhart set two of her many aviation records in this bright red Lockheed 5B Vega. In 1932 she flew it alone across the Atlantic Ocean, then flew it nonstop across the United States-both firsts for a woman.