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This photograph shows aviator Amelia Earhart on a parade float at a homecoming parade in Atchison, Kansas. A native of Atchison, Kansas, Earhart spoke at Memorial Hall to a crowd of 3,500 people during her visit. Earhart set a record flying solo across the Atlantic in her Lockheed Vega. She made the 14-hour, 56-minute flight from Newfoundland to Ireland in May 1932. Earlier, she had been the first woman to cross the Atlantic as a passenger in a plane.
Date: June 7, 1935
Item Number: 525
Call Number: B Earhart, Amelia *8
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 525
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Pilots
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Events and Celebrations - Parades
Date - 1930s - 1935
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Notable Kansans - Earhart, Amelia 1897-1937
People - Women
Places - Cities and towns - Atchison
Places - Counties - Atchison
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Transportation - Air Travel
Type of Material - Photographs
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