1996.1.108.
Photograph of Amelia Earhart. Black and White photograph. Beech-Nut publicity
photograph collection. 12.7 x 17.8 cm. Taken June 29 or 30, 1931. Photograph
taken by Maurice Le Bel.
In 1931,
Amelia Earhart was contracted by the Beech-Nut Packing Company to fly
one of their two Pitcairn Auto-Gyro planes from Newark, New Jersey to
Oakland and back. The publicity from that flight enabled Miss Earhart
to undertake several of her more famous flights, including New York to
Europe (1932), Hawaii to Oakland (1935) and her unsuccessful 1937 flight
around the world with help from Beech-Nut and Mr. Arkell. This photo was
taken as part of a week long publicity flight in late June and early July
of 1931. The Auto-Gyro could both take off and land like a plane and hover
like a helicopter. |
