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Amelia Earhart and Paul Mantz with Her Lockheed Vega
Stunt and racing pilot Paul Mantz is seen standing with Amelia Earhart. The pair are pictured waiting for the start of the Bendix Trophy Race of 1934. The race started in Burbank, California and ended in Cleveland, Ohio. That same year Mantz…
Amelia Earhart with Her Mother
Amelia sits with her mother, Amy Earhart in North California. Mrs. Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas in 1869 and outlived her daughter, passing away in 1962.
Amelia Earhart's House Being Built
Earhart watches men as the work to renovate her and her husband's new house in Taluca Lake, North Hollywood, California.
Amelia Earhart and Husband at Their New Home
In 1935, Earhart and husband George Putnam bought a house in Taluca Lake, North Hollywood, CA. Here we see the couple (right) standing in front of their new home, which was in the process of being extensively renovated.
Amelia Earhart at a Southern California Hotel
Earhart stands looking at the scenery at the Mission Inn in Riverside, California. The beautiful hotel is still in operation.
Amelia Earhart and Woman
Earhart stands with an unknown woman with her plane close by.
Amelia Earhart Gardening
Earhart spends time tending to her garden at her home in North Hollywood, California.
Mount Amelia Earhart
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.
Mount Amelia Earhart Plaque
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."
Amelia Earhart Sitting by a Window
Earhart relaxes at home during the Christmas holidays in 1935.
Nichols Setting Transcontinental Record
During her impressive flying career, Ruth Nichols set a new Transcontinental flying time record. Pictured here is Nichols in her Lockhead Vega in Burbank, California on 1 December 1930 after flying from the East to the West coast in 17 hours. Ten…
Pancho Around the Piano at Her Ranch
Black and white photograph of a man seated at a piano with his back to the camera. There are 5 men and 1 woman crowded around the piano facing the player. The woman is Pancho Barnes, and the man directly to her left with his arm draped over the piano…
Pancho Barnes at the Happy Bottom Riding Club
Black and white photograph of Pancho Barnes standing behind the bar at the Happy Bottom Riding Club. A man in a flight suit with a patch on his back reading "Veterans Flying Club Ionia" stands at the bar with his back to the camera.
In 1935,…
In 1935,…
Blanche Stuart Scott and Jimmy Stewart
Sepia-toned photograph of Blanche Stuart Scott visiting actor Jimmy Stewart on the set of "Spirit of St. Louis." Blanche is leaning on a picnic table while Jimmy sits atop it. Both are holding papers.
Caption on the back of the image reads…
Caption on the back of the image reads…
Jackie Cochran
Black and white photograph of Jackie Cochran wearing flight suit and hat, standing in the open cockpit of a T-38 jet. She flew the Northrop T-38 Talon supersonic twin-jet trainer 44.2 miles per hour to a new world's 15 kilometer speed record for…
Jackie Cochran in T-38
Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran standing in the cockpit of a T-38 plane.