Amelia Earhart posing beside plane

Title:: Amelia Earhart posing beside plane
Description:: This photo shows Miss Amelia Earhart, transatlantic flier, standing beside her new Lockheed-Vega plane which she may use in attempt to set new transcontinental nonstop record. Plane has speed of 194 miles an hour, where as the plane used by Frank Hawks in record flight had a speed of 187 m.p.h.
Photographer:: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967
Date:: January 10, 1930
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Glass negatives
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: Leslie Jones Collection
Series:: Aviation: Boardman, Earhart & Grayson
Subjects:: Air pilots
Airplanes
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937
Extent:: 1 photograph : glass negative ; plate 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 format)
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/4t64qd46p
Terms of Use:: Copyright (c) Leslie Jones.
All rights reserved.

Notes:: Title and summary from Getty Images (http://www.gettyimages.com, retrieved March 2025).
Notes (date):: Date from Getty Images (http://www.gettyimages.com, retrieved March 2025).
Notes (object):: Copy photo.
Accession #:: 08_06_038805

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