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'Black and white photograph of Anna-Marie Peltier wearing dark trousers and three-quarter jacket. She stands with her arms crossed and wears sunglasses. Behind her is a plane and snowy mountains.

Peltier was an F-27 captain for the Air Intern in…

French pilot Marcelle Choisnet-Gohard in a flight suit getting into a small plane. She held international records for gliding. A paper attached to the bottom of the picture has a description typed in French.

'Black and white photograph of Baroness Raymonde de la Roche (Elise de la Roche) seated at the wheel of an early biplane. She wears a dark knit cap and a dark knit sweater.

Baroness de la Roche is the first woman in the world to have earned a…

Black and white photograph of 'Hélène Dutrieu seated in the cockpit of an early biplane. She wears a white knit hat and a buttoned jacket.

Sepia-toned photograph of Maryse Hilsz, wearing matching skirt and blazer, along with flight goggles and flight helmet, standing with her hands on the wing of her airplane behind her. The side of the airplane reads "Paris Saigon".

Black and white illustration of French balloonist Sophie Blanchard. Sophie is standing in a balloon wearing a long-sleeve dress and bonnet.

Black and white illustration of French balloonist Fanny Godard in the basket of a balloon. She is wearing a hat and dress.

Black and white photograph of Lady Mary Bailey wearing leather jacket and helmet standing on the wing of a biplane and holding on to one of the struts. Another person also wearing leather jacket and helmet stands with their back to the…

In the spring of 1932, Earhart and her husband, George Putnam arrived in Cherbourg, France. They were greeted with flowers by frenchman M. Quoniam.