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

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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…

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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.

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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."

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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…

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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.

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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.

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

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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…

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Amelia Earhart poses on the tail of her Lockheed Electra for photographer Albert L. Bresnik.

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Amelia Earhart flies over Pennsylvania in the Beech-Nut Autogyro during her transcontinental flight.

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Amelia Earhart sits on a piece of luggage with fellow female pilot Helen Richey sitting in the door of an airplane. The pair are modeling light luggage that was designed for air travel by Earhart herself.

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This cut-out of Amelia Earhart's portrait was affixed to card stock by the pilot's secretary and avid admirer, Margot DeCarie.

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This cut-out of Amelia Earhart's portrait was affixed to card stock by the pilot's secretary and avid admirer, Margot DeCarie.

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Here Earhart poses for a portrait that has been cut-out and pasted on a scrapbook page by her secretary and avid admirer, Margot DeCarie.

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This cut-out picture of Amelia Earhart, taken by Jake Coolidge was affixed to card stock by the pilot's secretary and avid admirer, Margot DeCarie.

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Commander Williams assisted in navigating and preparing charts for Amelia Earhart’s attempt to fly around the world.

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Amelia Earhart is standing with the Laughlin family who were the first to greet her in Culmore, Ireland after she landed from her solo, transatlantic flight. In her hands she holds a sheaf of congratulatory telegrams.

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Mother of George Putnam, Francis Faulkner Putnam welcomed Earhart as her daughter-in-law on 7 February 1931. Cat-lover, Mrs. Putnam hosted the couple's wedding at her house in Noank, Connecticut.

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Earhart watches men as the work to renovate her and her husband's new house in Taluca Lake, North Hollywood, California.

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Earhart sits on the ground next to a plane talking to two men. A third man is visible inside the plane, possibly doing some mechanical work.

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Earhart stands talking to a man and woman in front of a plane. The inscriptions on the photograph read, "Anderson FEB 12 1935 Permatone," and "Fred @ White."

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In the spring of 1932, Earhart and her husband, George Putnam arrived in Cherbourg, France. They were greeted with flowers by frenchman M. Quoniam.

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Amelia stands in front of her Lockheed Vega in Ireland after her first solo transatlantic flight.

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Amelia sits with her mother, Amy Earhart in North California. Mrs. Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas in 1869 and outlived her daughter, passing away in 1962.
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