Amelia Earhart
This photograph of Earhart (1897-1937) is surprising in its humanity and candidness. Instead of being heroicized, as cultural icons are expected to be, she appears slightly bashful and unsure, posing with tomboyish awkwardness in front of her single-engine Lockheed Vega at Wheeler Field, Hawaii. On January 11, 1935, seven days after this photograph was taken, Earhart made her historic solo flight in this plane from Hawaii to Oakland, California--the first solo flight from Hawaii to the mainland. Two years later, she disappeared during an attempt to become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe.
Artwork Details
- Title: Amelia Earhart
- Artist: Unknown (American)
- Date: 1935
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 22.6 x 17.6 cm. (8 7/8 x 6 15/16 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Gap Foundation Gift, 1996
- Object Number: 1996.170
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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