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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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Earhart looks through binoculars while standing on her Lockheed Electra with Harry Manning, captain of the S.S. United States.

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Earhart stands looking at the scenery at the Mission Inn in Riverside, California. The beautiful hotel is still in operation.

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Earhart reads congratulatory telegrams while wearing her leather flight suit in Ireland. She had just completed her first solo transatlantic flight.

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

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Here Earhart sits next to a bust statue of herself. The artist responsible for the statue, Brenda Putnam sits to the right. Putnam is the cousin of Earhart's husband, George Putnam.

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In 1935, Earhart and husband George Putnam bought a house in Taluca Lake, North Hollywood, CA. Here we see the couple (right) standing in front of their new home, which was in the process of being extensively renovated.

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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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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 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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Earhart smiles proudly in New York City shortly after becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean with pilots Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon.

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Earhart and husband George Putnam pose together in an arch in Rye, New York. The couple moved to the east coast after their marriage in 1931 where they stayed until moving to California a few years later.

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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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Amelia Earhart and award-winning actress Helen Hayes sit together, posing with a film camera tripod.

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After Earhart and George Putnam married in 1931, the couple moved to Putnam's family home in Rye, New York. Here Earhart is shown pushing a wheelbarrow on the property in 1932. The couple only stayed at their east coast residence for a few years. …

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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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This cutout photograph features Earhart in a navy uniform. This first female to fly across the Atlantic both as a passenger and later in a solo journey as a pilot was made an honorary member of the United States Navy.

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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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Earhart is seen holding papers and telegrams in Londonderry, Northern Ireland after her first solo transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to Culmore, Ireland.

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Stunt and racing pilot Paul Mantz is seen standing with Amelia Earhart. The pair are pictured waiting for the start of the Bendix Trophy Race of 1934. The race started in Burbank, California and ended in Cleveland, Ohio. That same year Mantz…

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Earhart stands smiling in a field in Ireland after her first solo transatlantic flight. She had flown across the Atlantic four years earlier in 1928; however, Earhart was not the pilot of that aircraft.

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Photographer Albert L. Bresnik captures Amelia in front of the map detailing her round-the-world tour.

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In mid March 1937, Earhart departed from California on her first attempt to fly around the world. With her are Paul Mantz, Harry Manning and Fred Noonan.
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