Amelia Earhart FBI/Navy/State Dept. Files and Other Material -Download

Amelia Earhart FBI/Navy/State Dept. Files and other Material

620 pages of Amelia Earhart documents.

This collection includes:

Elanor Roosevelt-Earhart, Amelia Correspondences, 1933-1936
22 pages of correspondences, including letters addressing media reports that Earhart complained about how she was treated during a White House visit.

Letter from Amelia Earhart to President Roosevelt Regarding her World Flight, 11/10/1936

In this letter, Amelia Earhart writes to President Franklin D. Roosevelt regarding her world flight. Earhart asks Roosevelt for help coordinating with the Navy to refuel her plane in air over Midway Island

FBI Files

56 pages of files copied from FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., covering Amelia Earhart. Amelia Earhart was an aviatrix who disappeared July 1937 in the Pacific Ocean while on a highly publicized world flight attempt. The FBI never investigated her disappearance. The records generally consist of correspondence from individuals speculating about her fate. Accounts of solicitations of funds from bureau personnel for the Amelia Earhart Foundation. In 1990, the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery submitted a navigator's bookcase to the FBI Laboratory for examination. This item was suspected of having been part of Ms. Earhart's lost aircraft. Various technical analyses were conducted, and nothing was found which would disqualify the artifact as having come from the Earhart aircraft.


Radio Log of Amelia Earhart's Last Communications

These 5 pages are the original radio log of Amelia Earhart's last communications with the US Coast Guard cutter Itasca. Also included are notes and edits to the log by the radioman Leo G. Bellarts. The last communication occurred on 8:43 am on July 2. 1937, as indicated on the log.


Message containing The Japanese Government’s Offer of Assistance to Help Find Amelia Earhart, July 20, 1937

A telegram sent from Tokyo to the Japanese Embassy in Washington D.C., offering Japanese assistance in the search for Earhart.


Navy - Report of Earhart Search by U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard 2-18 July 1937

A 47-page US Navy report on the search for Amelia Earhart from July 2nd to 18th, 1937.


Navy - Report of Earhart Search U.S.S. Lexington July 1937

49 pages of reports from the U.S.S. Lexington concerning its search for Earhart.


State Department Files

125 pages of State Department documents covering diplomatic aspects of the search which followed her disappearance. Documents cover an investigation by the Japanese government of allegations that Earhart was imprisoned on Saipan in 1937.


Photographs 1897-1915

20 photographs of Earhart from 1897 to 1915, shoeing her from an infant to 18 years old, and the Earhart family home.



Amelia Earhart’s "Activities of women," Scrapbook 1924-1926

From 1924 to 1926, Earhart pasted news clipping into this scrapbook of grounding breaking achievements of other women during this time. The book contains 12 pages of clippings selected and mounted by Earhart.
From: Amelia Mary Earhart Papers. Amelia Earhart, 1897-1937. 1924-1926, n.d. A-129, folder 17. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

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