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Built for use around the airports, scooter attracted the attention of Amelia Earhart Putnam, famous aviatrix, and her pupil, June Travis, Warners player, the day Miss Earhart gave June her first flying lesson. Here are the pair about to go off on a scoot, at a twelve-mile clip, 1935.

Amelia Earhart: Aviator and first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, standing in front of her “Little Red Bus,” 1932.

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Amelia Earhart begins her journey.

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Amelia Earhart: “Island Getaways and the Art of Early Retirement”

Amelia Earhart was the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

Amelia Earhart, just before she became the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to Oakland. | January 4, 1935

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”

Amelia Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, was born 118 years ago today on July 24, 1897.

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Amelia Earhart, 1928

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Colin Clive and Amelia Earhart on the set of The Woman I Love. The photograph is from a book of 700 photos by Alex Kahle which sold at auction for $3,000. 

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Photograph album comprising approximately 700 gelatin silver photographs of various sizes mounted on heavy stock paper. 36x31 cm (14¼x12¼"), bolt-bound cowhide-covered album

Signed by Alexander Kahle, the principal cast members (including stars Miriam Hopkins, Paul Muni, Louis Hayward, et al.), and crew (including producer Albert Lewis, writer Mary Borden, et al.). Directed by Anatole Litvak, The Woman I Love is a 1937 American film about a romantic triangle involving two World War I fighter pilots and the wife of one of them. It was based on the novel by Joseph Kessel. Photographs by Alex Kahle. According to Mary Mallory, “When most people think of motion picture stills photographers, they think of such renowned portraitists as George Hurrell, Ruth Harriet Louise, Clarence Sinclair Bull, and Eugene Richee, who created the glamour and iconography of the classic film stars of the 1930s and 1940s. Often forgotten are the lensers who concentrated on scene stills, establishing a film’s mood or theme as they also developed character. German Alex Kahle brought dynamism and verve to his work as a scenes and off-camera stills photographer by shooting for the angles, making his images often “pop” off the page.” Kahle is perhaps most notable for his work on the set of Citizen Kane. According to Harlan Lebo in Welles, Toland and Citizen Kane, “Alexander Kahle, the RKO still photographer who shot almost daily on the Citizen Kane set, was a constant observer of the Welles-Toland professional relationship. “The two,” said Kahle, “saw eye to eye from the first.” The present album presents a wide variety of film stills in various sizes with behind the scenes shots, some cut and arranged in collage.

The album includes a page with four on-set photographs of Amelia Earhart.  The film’s director, Anatole Litvak’s biography refers to the day she came to the set, "During the shooting of the picture, famous aviatrix Amelia Earhart visited the set.  A fan of Paul Muni, the two posed together for a photograph. The actor remarked later, "it was the only time during the making of the film that I really felt like an aviator - by association!”

There is also an accompanying video. 

DECEMBER 26 - AMELIA EARHART

Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this record. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. 

Earhart joined the faculty of the Purdue University aviation department in 1935 as a visiting faculty member to counsel women on careers and help inspire others with her love for aviation. She was also a member of the National Woman’s Party, and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.

During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day.

Text for today’s post was taken from Wikipedia. Please consider donating a few minutes tomake a submission to Celebrate Women before the year is over.

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Illustrator and graphic designer Ann Shen’s drawings of bad girls throughout history. (Though “badass” is more appropriate than “bad,” strictly scientifically speaking.)

For some substantiation on the badassery of the above, see Amelia Earhart on marriage,Ada Lovelace on science and spirituality,Nellie Bly’s groundbreaking journalistic feistiness, and Eleanor Roosevelt on happiness and conformity and her controversial love letters to Lorena Hickok.