Pilot Ann H. Pellegreno carried this First Day Cover during her 1967 Round-the-World flight. She and her three-person crew followed Amelia Earhart's planned path around the equator in honor of the 30th anniversary of the disappearance of Earhart and…
Women's Air Derby contestant's planes sit at the Paul Cox Airport in Terre Haute, Indiana on August 25, 1929. A year before entering the contest, famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart was credited as the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. Earhart worked…
Amelia Earhart puts on her parachute with the help of her husband, George Putnam in front of her Beechnut Autogyro. The coveralls that Earhart wears in this picture were donated to the Ninety-Nines by Lauretta Schimmoler, who had received them from…
Amelia Earhart sits on a piece of luggage with fellow female pilot Helen Richey sitting in the door of an airplane. The pair are modeling light luggage that was designed for air travel by Earhart herself.
On 2 July 1966 a bronze plaque inscribed with the first two versus of Earhart's poem "Courage is the Price" was placed at the top of a mountain in Yosemite National Park. Rocketdyne Mountaineering Club member Gordon Palmer had chosen this mountain…
The Rocketdyne Mountaineering Club of Pasadena dedicated the bronze plaque atop Mount Amelia Earhart on 3 July 1966. The plaque is inscribed with the first two versus of a poem written by Earhart called "Courage is the Price."
Mount Amelia Earhart was dedicated to the record-breaking pilot on 3 July 1966. The mountain is in Yosemite National Park and reaches a height of 12,000 feet.
U.S.A.F. Command Pilot Major Joe Gervais researched Earhart’s disappearance. He eventually proposed the theory that she had survived, moved to New Jersey, and adopted the name Mrs. Irene Craigmile Bolam.
This newspaper clipping shows Earhart's cousin receiving a photograph of the Rocketdyne Mountaineering Club of Pasadena, California. The club had dedicated a plaque to be placed at the top of Mount Amelia Earhart on 3 July 1966.