[Paul Mantz, Amelia Earhart, Captain Harry Manning, and Fred Noonan]

Photograph of (from left to right) Paul Mantz, Amelia Earhart, Captain Harry Manning, and Fred Noonan with Earhart's Lockheed Model 10-E Electra aircraft, Oakland Airport, California, March 14, 1937. The photo was taken just before her around-the-world flight attempt.

Caption on verso: "From: Wide World Photos / San Francisco Bureau / Amelia crew ready for Pacific hop / Oakland Airport .... A new development in the ever-changing plans of Amelia Earhart Putnam is the inclusion in the first leg of her projected round world plane flight of a crew of three. Here they are, photographed before the airship at the Oakland Airport Navy hangar. Left to right: Paul Mantz, her technical advisor; Amelia Earhart Putnam; Captain Harry Manning, navigator and radio operator; Fred Noonan, Pan American Airways navigator. / SF 140474 / S / Please credit / 3-14-37."

Stamped on verso: "Please return to Minneapolis Star Library / Folder No.: 75 / Drawer No.: 97-[?] / Date filed: Apr. 2, 1937."