AMELIA M. EARHART - AUTOGRAPH 10/1928 CO-SIGNED BY: PADRAIC COLUM, CLARA E. LAUGHLIN, HONORE WILLSIE MORROW, BUFFALO CHILD LONG LANCE, JOHN NORTON JOHNSON, ELLERY WALTER, MAUD M. LINDSAY, MARJORIE BARKLEY McCLURE, EDWIN MEADE ROBINSON, WHITING WILLIAMS, ROBERT J. CASEY, ELMER DAVIS, MCCREADY (ELIZA JANE) HUSTON, MEREDITH NICHOLSON, W. B. SEABROOK, HENRY TURNER BAILEY, DELIA J. AKELEY, DOROTHY K. ALDIS, JANE ABBOTT, EDMUND VANCE COOK, JAMES A. BRADEN, GEORGE P. PUTNAM, LOUIS UNTERMEYER, JOHNNY GRUELLE - HFSID 347983

AMELIA M. EARHART and OTHERS
Historic Amelia Earhart Hand Signed Document Celebrating Her Famed Atlantic Flight Alongside Literary Greats.
Signature: "Amelia M. Earhart", 8½x11 album leaf titled: "Autographs of Authors and Poets visiting The Halle Bros. Co. Book Fair, October 15 to 20, 1928". Complete List of Signers: "Marjorie Barkley McClure", "Edmund Vance Cooke", "Lou Untermeyer", "Edwin Meade Robinson", "Whiting Williams", "Buffalo Child Long Lance", "Robert J. Casey", "Clara E. Laughlin", "Elmer Davis", "Mc Cready Huston", "Meredith Nicholson", "W.B. Seabrook", "Padraic Colum", "Henry Turner Bailey", "Honore Willsie Morrow", "Delia J. Akeley", "Dorothy Aldis", "James Abbott", "Maud Lindsay", "James A. Braden", "Johnny Gruelle", "John Norton Johnson", "Amelia Earhart", "Ellery Walter", "G P Putnam", and four unidentified signatures. AMELIA EARHART (1897-1937) signed this listing in 1928, along with her husband - publisher George Palmer Putnam (1887-1950) - and over two dozen other authors. That year, Earhart's first book, 20 Hrs. 40 Min., was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. The meeting with Putnam in preparation for the book, which told of her early days as a pilot and her experience as the first female passenger to fly the Atlantic (June 1928), prompted their marriage. Earhart also worked for "Cosmopolitan" as the aviation editor. That magazine's publishing division released Long Lance in August 1928, a story about an American Indian youth written by BUFFALO CHILD LONG LANCE (1890-1932). Although proclaimed to be autobiographical, it was proven several years later that he was not of Indian heritage and his real name was Sylvester Long. ELMER DAVIS (1890-1958), whose signature also appears, published Giant Killer in 1928. Davis, who had been a reporter and editorial writer for "The New York Times", later became a journalist with CBS News. He left CBS at the invitation of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to head the Office of War Information (1942-1945). LOUIS UNTERMEYER (1885-1977) published Burning Bush in 1928 and later worked as the poetry editor of "The American Mercury". JOHNNY GRUELLE (1880-1938) created Raggedy Ann and Andy. Earhart's aviation milestones include her solo trans-Atlantic crossing on May 20-21, 1932 - the fifth anniversary of Charles Lindbergh's flight - which also set a record of less than 15 hours. She made the first solo non-stop, trans-continental flight (August 24, 1932) and was the first woman to solo from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California (January 11-12, 1935). In July 1937, Earhart and her co-pilot/navigator Fred Noonan, disappeared in their Lockheed Electra in the Pacific while attempting an around-the-world flight. Creased with folds. Horizontal folds touch five signatures. Pinhead-size holes and ink smudges in lower right blank area. Frame slightly chipped at back corners. Otherwise, fine condition. Framed to an overall size of 32½x22.