IdentifierBIO_image_045SourceBiographical Files, Box: Assorted Collections (Safe) [One], Folder: Amelia EarhartCreatorWide World Photos, Inc.DescriptionPhotograph 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."
Wide World Photos, Inc., [Paul Mantz, Amelia Earhart, Captain Harry Manning, and Fred Noonan], [BIO_image_045]. Museum of Flight Digital Collections, accessed 12/03/2026, https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/nodes/view/26129