[Amelia Earhart and George Palmer Putnam, Newark]

George Palmer Putnam helps Amelia Earhart into her parachute at Newark before leaving on her cross-country trip in an autogiro, a plane that was invented in 1919. Called a "flying windmill" by the press, Earhart's autogiro was sponsored by the Beech-Nut Packing Company. She originally purchased the plane herself but sold it to the company and agreed to be a flying billboard for Beech-Nut. This was her second newsworthy event in an autogiro: the previous year, she became the first American woman to fly the plane.