2962924 Amelia Earhart arrives with Eleanor Roosevelt to address the members of the National Geographic Society, 1935 (b/w photo) by Harris & Ewing (1905-45); Private Collection; (add.info.: Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. The crew of 3 were greeted with a ticker-tape parade in New York on their return and President Calvin Coolidge held a reception at the White House. In 1932 she was the first woman to fly it nonstop, 2nd pilot after Charles Lindbergh. She disappeared on a flight in 1937.); American, out of copyright.