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Amelia Earhart (1898-1937) Collection, 1928-1937, 1945
P-037
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Title: Amelia Earhart (1898-1937) Collection, 1928-1937, 1945
Dates: 1918-1945
Collection Number: P-037
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Extent: 1.2 linear feet (Boxes: letter, 5 x 7, 1 ov)
Repository:
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Abstract: The Amelia Earhart Collection is comprised of six boxes and one oversized box of black and white prints of Amelia Earhart,
her family and friends and other various photographs relating to both her flights and aviation in general. ca. 1918, 1928-1937,
ca. 1945
Language of Material: English
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Amelia Earhart (1898-1937) Collection, 1928-1937, 1945. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum
of Los Angeles County
Scope and Content of Collection
The Amelia Earhart Collection is comprised of six boxes and one oversized box of black and white prints of Amelia Earhart,
her family and friends and other various photographs relating to both her flights and aviation in general. ca. 1918, 1928-1937,
ca. 1945
The earliest photographs of Amelia Earhart from this collection date from circa 1918. The bulk of the photographs, however,
date from 1928-1937. These include portrait photographs of Amelia Earhart, her husband George Palmer Putnam, her navigator
Fred Noonan and friend Paul Mantz. There are photographs of Orville Wright, Charles A. Lindbergh, President Herbert Hoover,
Lady Astor and film star Helen Hayes. The Amelia Earhart Collection also includes many photographs of the Friendship and Amelia
Earhart's Lockheed Vega and Lockheed Electra planes. The latest photographs, those of Amelia Earhart's mother, Amy Otis Earhart,
date from circa 1945.
Finally, this print collection includes reproductions of two letters written by Amelia Earhart to George Palmer Putnam, U.S.
Coastguard radio messages concerning the disappearance of the Lockheed Electra in 1937 and a copy of Amelia Earhart's will,
written before her Transatlantic flight in 1928. See General Collection 1061 Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) Papers for the originals
of these reproductions, as well as numerous other papers relating to Amelia Earhart.
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937