Photos: Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart was born July 24, 1897. In honor of her birthday, we present some historical photos of the woman at the center of one of the world's enduring mysteries.
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Amelia Earhart poses in this undated photo. (AP Photo)
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Amelia Earhart with her Lockheed Vega surrounded by crowd after she became the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California in 1935. Courtesy Air and Space Museum. (AP Photo)
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Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam pictured beside a likeness of herself executed by George Conlon, an American sculptor now living in Paris in an undated photo. The bust which is remarkable facsimile of the transatlantic flier was modeled almost entirely with the aid of photographs because of the inability of the flier to devote most of her time while in Paris to the sittings. (AP Photo)
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Amelia Earhart's Flights on display at the Ninety-Nines Museum of Women Pilots in Oklahoma City, Okla. as seen on Friday, Dec. 17, 2010. Earhart was the First President of the Ninety-Nines Organization. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)
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An undated file photo shows American aviatrix Amelia Earhart. A $2.2 million expedition is hoping to finally solve one of America's most enduring mysteries. What happened to famed aviator Amelia Earhart when she went missing over the South Pacific 75 years ago? (AP Photo, File)
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In this May 1937 file photo, aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, pose in front of their twin-engine Lockheed Electra in Los Angeles, prior to their historic flight in which Earhart was attempting to become first female pilot to circle the globe. (AP Photo, File)
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In this undated photo, Amelia Earhart is shown. (AP Photo, File)
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Undated photo of aviator Amelia Earhart. (AP Photo)
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Amelia Earhart and husband George Palmer Putnam are photographed in their New York Hotel on Feb. 11, 1931. The couple was married in Putnam's home in Connecticut. Earhart, the first woman pilot to fly across the Atlantic in 1928, is the vice-president of Luddington Airlines, Inc. Putnam is the former treasurer of his grandfather's book-publishing firm G. P. Putnam and Sons, 1919-1930. (AP Photo)
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Aviator Amelia Earhart lifts herself from the cockpit of her airplane after completing a transcontinental flight in Oakland, Calif., on June 6, 1931. (AP Photo)
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Transatlantic pilots Amelia Earhart Putnam, right, and Bernt Balchen pose at Teterboro Airport in Hasbrouck Heights, N.J., May 1932. They will fly to Newfoundland in the plane in background, May 19. (AP Photo)
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Amelia Earhart, the Trans-Atlantic flyer, and her Stepson, Dave Putman, photographed on the beach on July 9, 1932, at Los Angeles, California, a short time after their arrival there by plane recently from New York. Miss Earhart's husband accompanied them on the flight. (AP Photo)
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Amelia Earhart climbs out of her plane at Oakland Airport after completing her 18 hour, 2400 mile flight from Honolulu on Jan. 14, 1935. (AP Photo)
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Aviator Amelia Earhart visits her mother, Amy Otis Earhart, at home in Hollywood, Calif., on Jan. 14, 1935. (AP Photo)
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Amelia Earhart, the only person to fly solo from Honolulu to the mainland of the United States, arrived at the Oakland, Calif., airport on Jan. 19, 1935, in order to attend a civic banquet in her honor at the Athen's Athletic Club of Oakland. Upon arrival, left to right are George Palmer Putnam, Amelia's husband, Amelia Earhart Putnam, Paul Mantz, mechanic for Amelia and Mrs. Paul Mantz. (AP Photo/Ernest King)
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American aviatrix Amelia Earhart poses before boarding a TWA airplane at Newark Airport, N.J., May 22, 1935. Earhart is en route to Chicago, Ill., to address the Chicago Women's Club. (AP Photo)
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Amelia Earhart Putnam, famous woman flier, entered the Bendix Air Race at the last moment, and said she was in the contest not to complete for the prize but for fun, shown with her technical advisor, Paul Mantz, who made the flight with her in Los Angeles on August 31, 1935. She finished fifth, flying to Cleveland in elapsed time of 13 hours, 47 minutes, six and 1-10 seconds. (AP Photo)
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Amelia Earhart checks the fuel mechanisms inside her plane in Newark, NJ on Feb. 14, 1937. (AP Photo)
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Amelia Earhart, left, and Capt. Harry Manning, her navigator, check instruments in the plane she'll use on around the world flight scheduled to start March 15. Photo taken March 6, 1937, Los Angeles, Calif. Capt. Manning will accompany her across the Pacific to Australia. (AP Photo)
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Mary Pickford received a big welcome home after her trip in the East at Los Angeles on August 2, 1932. Douglas Fairbanks Sr., her husband, and Amelia Earhart, Trans-Atlantic flyer, met her. (AP Photo)
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Aviator Amelia Earhart stands with members of her flight team in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1937. From left are Paul Mantz, technical adviser, Earhart, navigators Harry Manning and Fred Noonan. (AP Photo)
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In this undated photo, Amelia Earhart, the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by plane sits on top of a plane. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is wading into one of the 20th century's most enduring mysteries: the fate of American aviator Amelia Earhart, disappeared over the South Pacific 75 years ago. Clinton is meeting March 20, 2012, with historians and scientists from The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, which will launch a new search in June for the wreckage of Earhart's plane off the remote island of Nikumaroro. (AP Photo)
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Amelia Earhart, left, poses with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in this undated photo. (AP Photo)
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Amelia Earhart, left, and navigator Fred Noonan pose with a map of the Pacific showing route of their last flight in this undated photo. (AP Photo)
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Amelia Earhart, second from right, poses with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, second from left, in this undated photo. The rest of the group is unidentified. (AP Photo)