Vintage photo of American aviation pioneer and author Amelia Earhart (1897 – declared dead 1939) – Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan famously vanished in 1937 while she was trying to become the first female to complete a circumnavigational flight of the globe. Earhart is pictured at The White House in June 1932 where President Herbert Hoover presented her with a National Geographic Society gold medal in recognition of her non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic.

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Vintage photo of American aviation pioneer and author Amelia Earhart (1897 – declared dead 1939) – Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan famously vanished in 1937 while she was trying to become the first female to complete a circumnavigational flight of the globe. Earhart is pictured at The White House in June 1932 where President Herbert Hoover presented her with a National Geographic Society gold medal in recognition of her non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic. To the left of Hoover is Gilbert Grosvenor, Editor of National Geographic magazine and President of the National Geographic Society, and to the right of Earhart is Mrs Hoover.

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