Colorful Airmail Postcard Signed by Pioneer Aviatrix Amelia Earhart in 1928, Commemorating Her Reception in Her Hometown When She Became the First Female Aviator to Fly Across the Atlantic Ocean

Earhart was the first female aviator to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, was one of the first aviators to promote commercial air travel, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. She disappeared with navigator Fred Noonan somewhere over the Pacific Ocean in July, 1937 and has been the subject of numerous theories and conspiracies ever since. She was declared dead in 1939.

An air mail postcard bordered in red, white and blue diagonals with a 10 cent air mail stamp showing a biplane and a large cachet at the left noting it is from the Boston Chapter of the National Aeronautic Association and commemorates the official welcome given to Amelia Earhart, Wilmer Stultz and Lou Gordon, the “Friendship” fliers, Boston, July 9, 1928, the occasion being Earhart's welcome by her hometown after her famous flight across the Atlantic Ocean. It is postmarked the same date, and signed by Earhart across the cachet.