#women pilots

Amelia Earhart Visits Minneapolis

February 1933: When Amelia Earhart Putnam visited Minneapolis recently, she was greeted at the airport by Jean Barnhill (left), an aeronautical engineering student at the University of Minnesota, and Florence Klingensmith (center), who won the trophy donated by Miss Earhart at the Cleveland air races last summer. Minneapolis Tribune Photo, February 12, 1933.

Learn more about local women fliers like Gladys Roy and women of the Ninety-Nine Club.

PhotoP74236 was recently added to the Minneapolis Newspaper Photograph Collection in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.