Amelia Earhart: An Overview of Prints & Photographs Division Holdings

This list was compiled to meet requests regularly received by the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division and represents a survey of manual and automated files as of 1992. Additional images relating to Amelia Earhart may be found in more recently acquired and cataloged collections, including the New York World Telegram and Sun Collection. References to some of the additional images on this subject can be found in the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog.

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Individual Portraits

1.) Description: Amelia Earhart, head-and-shoulders portrait, wearing cloche hat and fur coat. Photograph, Underwood & Underwood, Nov. 10, 1930.
Location of original: BIOG FILE
Reproduction no.: LC-USZ62-79099 (b&w film copy negative)

2.) Description: Amelia Earhart, head-and-shoulders portrait, with patterned scarf around her neck, Chicago. Photograph, photographer not identified, Nov. 23, 1928.
Location of original: BIOG FILE
Reproduction no.: LC-USZ62-20901 (b&w film copy negative)

3.) Description: Amelia Earhart, head-and-shoulders portrait, wearing leather helmet iwth goggles and leather coat with fur collar. Photograph, photographer not identified, ca. 1925-30.
Location of original: LOT 2644
Reproduction no.: LC-USZ62-45002 (b&w film copy negative)

4.) Description: Amelia Earhart, head-and-shoulders portrait, wearing blouse with ruffled collar and two strings of pearls around her neck, Washington, D.C. Photograph, Underwood & Underwood, [no date].
Location of original: BIOG FILE
Reproduction no.: LC-USZ62-112514 (b&w film copy negative)

5.) Description: Amelia Earhart, full-length, standing by window. Photograph, Underwood & Underwood, [no date].
Location of original: BIOG FILE
Reproduction no.: LC-USZ62-101099 (b&w film copy negative)

Group Portraits and Activities

6.) Description: Amelia Earhart standing in doorway of small plane, shaking hands with unidentified man, Photograph, photographer not identified, [no date].
Location of original: BIOG FILE
Reproduction no.: LC-USZ62-43601 (b&w film copy negative)

7.) Description: Amelia Earhart standing in convertible car with Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon at New York city hall, celebrating the fact that she was the first woman passenger on a transatlantic flight, New York, NY. Photograph, photographer not identified, July 1928.
Location of original: BIOG FILE
Reproduction no.: LC-USZ62-51820 (film copy negative)

8.) Description: Amelia Earhart, Wilmer Stultz, and Louis Gordon greeted at the Boston airport by Mayor Malcolm E. Nichols upon their arrival from New York. Photograph, photographer not identified, July 1928.
Location of original: BIOG FILE
Reproduction no.: LC-USZ62-110823 (b&w film copy negative)

9.) Description: Amelia Earhart and her mother in Boston, when 300,000 turned out to cheer the three flyers who made the non-stop flight across the Atlantic. Photograph, photographer not identified, July 1928.
Location of original: BIOG FILE
Reproduction no.: LC-USZ62-66659 (b&w film copy negative)

10.) Description: Amelia Earhart shaking hands with acting Chicago Mayor William D. Saltiel and standing with Wilmer Stultz, Louis Gordon, and Chicago dignitaries, Chicago, Ill. Photograph, photographer not identified, July 19, 1928.
Location of original: BIOG FILE
Reproduction no.: -----

11.) Description: Chicago Chief of Police Hughes pinning star badge on Amelia Earhart as she stands with Wilmer Stultz, Louis Gordon, and acting Chicago Mayor William D. Saltiel, Chicago, Ill. Photograph, photographer not identified, July 19, 1928.
Location of original: BIOG FILE
Reproduction no.: LC-USZ62-103820 (b&w film copy negative)

12.) Description: Amelia Earhart standing in line with other noted flyers at first ball of Aero Club of Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C. Photograph, Underwood & Underwood, Feb. 5, 1931.
Location of original: BIOG FILE
Reproduction no.: LC-USZ62-111470 (b&w film copy negative)

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Description: Amelia Earhart standing with Mayor Walker of New York City and crowd of well wishers, New York, NY. Photograph, photographer not identified, 1932. [Copyright, Samuel O. Bancroft, Sept. 19, 1932. No copyright renewal--verified 1998.] Location of original: BIOG FILE Reproduction no.: LC-USZ62-41713 (b&w film copy negative)

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Description: President Herbert Hoover presenting the gold medal of the National Geographic Society to Amelia Earhart, in recognition of her non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic, Washington, D.C. Photograph, Underwood & Underwood, June 21, 1932. Location of original: PRES FILE--Hoover, Herbert--Presenting Awards Reproduction no.: LC-USZ62-32457 (b&w film copy negative)

15.) Description: Amelia Earhart and her husband, George Putnam, standing with leis around their necks watching a young hula dancer as they arrive in Honolulu aboard the ship LURLINE in preparation for Earhart's transpacific flight, Honolulu, Hawaii. Photograph, Pan Pacific Press Photo, Dec. 1934.
Location of original: LOT 5054
Reproduction no.: -----

16.) Description: Amelia Earhart and her husband, George Putnam, standing with Stanley Kennedy (president of Hawaii's Inter-Island Airways) and U.S. Ranger S. Lamb at Halemaumau National Park as Superintendant E.C. Wingate talks to them about the park, Hawaii. Photograph, Pan Pacific Press Photo, Jan. 8, 1935.
Location of original: LOT 5054
Reproduction no.: -----

17.) Description: Amelia Earhart standing by a table on a stage as she addresses a crowd at Farrington Hall, Honolulu, Hawaii. Photograph, Pan Pacific Press Photo, Jan. 2, 1935.
Location of original: LOT 5054
Reproduction no.: LC-USZ62-110855 (b&w film copy negative)

18.) Description: Amelia Earhart seated on grass with Duke Kahanamoku, sheriff of Honolulu, who is cutting a pineapple, Honolulu, Hawaii. Photograph, Pan Pacific Press Photo, Jan. 2, 1935.
Location of original: LOT 5054
Reproduction no.: -----

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Description: Amelia Earhart seated, flowers on lap, in group portrait with seven other people, including Carl Spaatz and military officers. Photograph, Underwood, [no date]. Location of original: LOT 8984 Reproduction no.: LC-USZ62-90915 (b&w film copy negative)

20.) Description: Amelia Earhart with aviation authorities [Sen. Hiram Bingham, Miss Elinor Smith, W.I. Glover, Amelia Earhart, C. Gassaway, and W.P. MacCracken], at U.S. Chamber of Commerce convention, Washington, D.C. Photograph, photographer not identified, May 2, 1929.
Location of original: BIOG--Bingham, Sen. Hiram
Reproduction no.: LC-USZ62-91523 (b&w film copy negative)

AIRCRAFT AND FLIGHTS

21.) Description: Unloading Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega airplane from liner LURLINE (plane hanging from crane cables, silhouetted against the sky), Honolulu, Hawaii. Photograph, Pan Pacific Press Photo, Dec. 1934.
Location of original: LOT 5054
Reproduction no.: LC-USZ62-110858 (b&w film copy negative)

22.) Description: Paul Mantz, Amelia Earhart's technician, clumbs from airplane after starting the motor to warm up for the coast flight, Honolulu, Hawaii. Photograph, Pan Pacific Press Photo, Jan. 12, 1935.
Location of original: LOT 5054
Reproduction no.: LC-USZ62-110857 (b&w film copy negative)

23.) Description: Last minute warm-up of Amelia Earhart's airplane at Wheeler Field, shortly before her solo flight to California, Honolulu, Hawaii. Photograph, Pan Pacific Press Photo, Jan. 12, 1935.
Location of original: LOT 5054
Reproduction no.: -----

24.) Description: Amelia Earhart's airplane taking off from Wheeler Field, Honolulu, for California--view of Lockheed Vega plane as it swept down US Army field on take-off to mainland, Honolulu, Hawaii. Photograph, Pan Pacific Press Photo, Jan 12, 1935.
Location of original: LOT 5054
Reproduction no.: LC-USZ62-110856 (b&w film copy negative)

25.) Description: The FRIENDSHIP, Fokker F-VIII trimotor seaplane, which was flown by Wilmer Stultz and Lou Gordon with Amelia Earhart from Newfoundland to Wales, shown in flight. Photograph, photographer not identified, [no date].
Location of original: LOT 6121
Reproduction no.: LC-USZ62-49952 (b&w film copy negative)

26.) Description: The FRIENDSHIP, Fokker F-VIII trimotor seaplane, which was flown by Wilmer Stultz and Lou Gordon with Amelia Earhart from Newfoundland to Wales, shown on wheels on the ground. Photograph, photographer not identified, [no date].
Location of original: LOT 6121
Reproduction no.: LC-USZ62-49953 (b&w film copy negative)

CARTOONS

27.) Description: "She got across all right" [Elderly woman (Dame Democracy) looking at notices about Earhart's transatlantic flight]. Drawing by Clifford Kennedy Berryman, May 1932
Location of original: CD 1 - Berryman (CK), no. 697 (A size)
Reproduction no.: -----

POSTERS

28.) Description: Amelia Earhart, 1898 [sic]-1937 [Earhart posed in front of airplane propeller]. Poster designed by Maria Jensen, photo courtesy of UPI International, copyrighted by Femmes, 1976.
Location of original: POS 6 - U.S. 772
Reproduction no.: -----

29.) Description: Women have long hair and short wits [Small oval portraits of Amelia Earhart, Margaret Sanger, Margaret Mead, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Gertrude Stein, and Barbara Jordan, featured in TABS, "a journal of aids for ending sexism in schools"]. Poster copyrighted by Lucy Picco Simpson, 1978.
Location of original: POS 6 - U.S. 809
Reproduction no.: LC-USZ62-109589 (b&w film copy negative)

Prepared by: Prints and Photographs Division Reference staff. Last revised: 9/98