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Amelia Earhart puts on her parachute with the help of her husband, George Putnam in front of her Beechnut Autogyro. The coveralls that Earhart wears in this picture were donated to the Ninety-Nines by Lauretta Schimmoler, who had received them from…

George Putnam (left) and Navy captain Harry Manning (center) stand with an unknown man on Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra.

U.S.A.F. Command Pilot Major Joe Gervais researched Earhart’s disappearance. He eventually proposed the theory that she had survived, moved to New Jersey, and adopted the name Mrs. Irene Craigmile Bolam.

Mount Amelia Earhart was dedicated to the record-breaking pilot on 3 July 1966. The mountain is in Yosemite National Park and reaches a height of 12,000 feet.

On 2 July 1966 a bronze plaque inscribed with the first two versus of Earhart's poem "Courage is the Price" was placed at the top of a mountain in Yosemite National Park. Rocketdyne Mountaineering Club member Gordon Palmer had chosen this mountain…

The Rocketdyne Mountaineering Club of Pasadena dedicated the bronze plaque atop Mount Amelia Earhart on 3 July 1966. The plaque is inscribed with the first two versus of a poem written by Earhart called "Courage is the Price."

This newspaper clipping shows Earhart's cousin receiving a photograph of the Rocketdyne Mountaineering Club of Pasadena, California. The club had dedicated a plaque to be placed at the top of Mount Amelia Earhart on 3 July 1966.

This image is a cut-out of a portrait of the famous woman aviator Amelia Earhart. Earhart began her flying career at the age of twenty-four. In January 1921, she took her first flying lesson. She went on to set numerous records and became the…

Earhart and husband George Putnam pose for a portrait. After a long friendship and six proposals, the couple was finally married in February 1961.