Amelia Earhart’s goggles and personal photos were auctioned off for more than $31,000 on Sunday morning. The goggles were donated by a friend of hers and 24 photos were taken as she prepared for her March 17, 1937 flight. Read more after the jump.

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Goggles worn by famed aviator Amelia Earhart and photographs of her pulled in more than $31,000 during an auction of the items in Oakland Sunday morning.

A spokesman for Clars Auction Gallery says the winning bid for the goggles was $17,775.

The goggles – a set of 1920s Luxor aviator goggles with a cracked left lens – were previously owned by Barbara Englehardt, a Contra Costa County resident who got them from a friend about 20 years ago.

In addition to the goggles, 24 photographs were auctioned off for a total of $13,509.

The photographs included shots of Earhart making preparations for her round-the-world flight, as well as her plane taking off on March 17, 1937.

The flight in March was one of two attempts Earhart made that year to circumnavigate the globe.

Her plane would disappear in the Pacific during the second attempt a few months later.
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