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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Amelia Earhart, head-and-shoulders portrait, wearing cloche hat and fur coat. Photograph, Underwood & Underwood, Nov. 10, 1930. LC-USZ62-79099

Amelia Earhart, head-and-shoulders portrait, with patterned scarf around her neck, Chicago. Photograph, photographer not identified, Nov. 23, 1928. LC-USZ62-20901

Amelia Earhart, head-and-shoulders portrait, wearing leather helmet iwth goggles and leather coat with fur collar. Photograph, photographer not identified, ca. 1925-30. LC-USZ62-45002

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]. LC-USZ62-112514

Amelia Earhart, full-length, standing by window. Photograph, Underwood & Underwood, [no date]. LC-USZ62-101099

Amelia Earhart standing in doorway of small plane, shaking hands with unidentified man, Photograph, photographer not identified, [no date]. LC-USZ62-43601

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. LC-USZ62-51820

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. LC-USZ62-110822

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. LC-USZ62-66659

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. LC-USZ62-103820

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. LC-USZ62-111470

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.] LC-USZ62-41713

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. LC-USZ62-32457

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 LC-USZ62-110855

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 LC-USZ62-91523

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. LC-USZ62-110858

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. LC-USZ62-110857

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 LC-USZ62-90915

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. LC-USZ62-110856

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 LC-USZ62-49952

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 LC-USZ62-49953

"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) LC-USZ62-135608

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 LC-USZ62-125840

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 LC-USZ62-109589