Amelia Earhart photographs and posters [graphic], 1926-ca. 1998.

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Amelia Earhart photographs and posters [graphic], 1926-ca. 1998.

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This collection consists of five black-and-white photographs and three posters of Amelia Earhart. One photograph shows her with Charles Lindbergh; a few show her standing by an airplane. The images range from 1926 to 1937; some are later reproductions. Attached to one poster is a swatch of original fabric used in her Lockheed Vega 5B airplane. A framed photograph also includes a 1963 U.S. airmail 8 cents commemorative stamp of Earhart. The collection is arranged into two series: Series 1, Photographs; Series 2, Posters.

1 half-document case, 1 half-OVB box, 2 items in flat file.

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Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. At the age of 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize for making a nonstop flight from New York City to Paris. Lindbergh covered the ​33 1⁄2-hour, 3,600-statute-mile (5,800 km) flight alone in a purpose-built, single-engine Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis. While the first non-...

Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937

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Amelia Mary Earhart (AE) was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas, the first daughter of Amy (Otis) Earhart and Edwin Stanton Earhart. Her sister, Grace Muriel, was born three years later. The family moved several times (to Kansas City, Kansas; Des Moines; St. Paul; Chicago) during AE's childhood as her father tried unsuccessfully to establish a profitable legal career. AE graduated from Chicago's Hyde Park High School in 1916. ESE's increasing reliance on al...