Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. View of George Palmer Putnam standing in glasses, collared shirt, tie, jacket, with overcoat and umbrella in right hand. George Putnam, husband and widower of Amelia Earhart, and Hollywood publisher and writer, was named sole executor of his wife's estate when Earhart was declared legally dead seventeen months after her ill-fated trip. This photograph appears with the article "Amelia Earhart Declared Dead: Court Names Husband of Lost Aviator as Executor of Estate," Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 1939: 2. Text from negative sleeve: 2224, Geo. Palmer Putnam, Amelia Earhart, Will Case, H-566, [stamped:] Jan 5 1939 Text from newspaper caption: George Palmer Putnam Handwritten on negative: Geo Palmer Putnam, 1-5-38
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