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- Warren Glover and Harry New Congratulate Air Mail Pilot Earl Ward, March 20, 1926 - In 1924, with the success of experimental night operations and increasing business interest in next-day mail, the U.S. Air Mail Service announced plans to establish regular overnight flights between New York and Chicago. Preparations included mounting floodlights and searchlights at airfields and constructing a series of routing beacons and emergency landing fields along the route. The first official flights departed from both terminal cities on July 1, 1925.
- 1926
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Warren Glover and Harry New Congratulate Air Mail Pilot Earl Ward, March 20, 1926
In 1924, with the success of experimental night operations and increasing business interest in next-day mail, the U.S. Air Mail Service announced plans to establish regular overnight flights between New York and Chicago. Preparations included mounting floodlights and searchlights at airfields and constructing a series of routing beacons and emergency landing fields along the route. The first official flights departed from both terminal cities on July 1, 1925.
- Label Used by Henry Palmer Bullard in the Phoenixville Post Office, 1882-1884 -
- 1882-1884
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Label Used by Henry Palmer Bullard in the Phoenixville Post Office, 1882-1884
- Portrait of Montgomery Blair, United States Postmaster General, 1861-1864 - Cartes-de-visite, small, professionally made photographs on cardboard stock, remained popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s. Many were given to friends and loved ones, but enterprising photographers also produced images of famous individuals to sell to the collecting-crazed public. Celebrities, military officers and politicians, such as Montgomery Blair, Abraham Lincoln's first postmaster general, were popular subjects.
- 1861-1864
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Portrait of Montgomery Blair, United States Postmaster General, 1861-1864
Cartes-de-visite, small, professionally made photographs on cardboard stock, remained popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s. Many were given to friends and loved ones, but enterprising photographers also produced images of famous individuals to sell to the collecting-crazed public. Celebrities, military officers and politicians, such as Montgomery Blair, Abraham Lincoln's first postmaster general, were popular subjects.
- Postmaster Madison Gallogly and Mary Gallogly in the Hoxie, Kansas Post Office, circa 1913 -
- circa 1913
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Postmaster Madison Gallogly and Mary Gallogly in the Hoxie, Kansas Post Office, circa 1913
- Letter from Will H. Hays to Frank Hopley, April 1, 1921, "The Most Thrilling Moment of My Life" - Frank Dorrance Hopley (1872-1933) wrote a number of boy's books and authored stories and articles for national magazines and newspapers. In 1921, Hopley had an idea for an article--he would ask famous individuals to share their life's most thrilling moment. William Hays, U.S. Postmaster General, was unable to answer at the time due to his work load.
- April 01, 1921
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Letter from Will H. Hays to Frank Hopley, April 1, 1921, "The Most Thrilling Moment of My Life"
Frank Dorrance Hopley (1872-1933) wrote a number of boy's books and authored stories and articles for national magazines and newspapers. In 1921, Hopley had an idea for an article--he would ask famous individuals to share their life's most thrilling moment. William Hays, U.S. Postmaster General, was unable to answer at the time due to his work load.
- Portrait of Monroe F. Latham, circa 1895 -
- circa 1895
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Portrait of Monroe F. Latham, circa 1895
- U.S. Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock Poses with Earle Ovington and the Bag Used to Carry the First U.S. Air Mail, September 1911 - When the Post Office Department sponsored the first official air mail flight on September 23, 1911, it wasn't much more than a publicity stunt. Pilot Earle Ovington carried a sack of mail from Garden City, New York, to nearby Mineola, where he dropped it into a field behind the local post office. Serious air mail operations started in 1918.
- September 23, 1911
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U.S. Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock Poses with Earle Ovington and the Bag Used to Carry the First U.S. Air Mail, September 1911
When the Post Office Department sponsored the first official air mail flight on September 23, 1911, it wasn't much more than a publicity stunt. Pilot Earle Ovington carried a sack of mail from Garden City, New York, to nearby Mineola, where he dropped it into a field behind the local post office. Serious air mail operations started in 1918.
- Letter from Andrew Jackson to George Gibson, 1819 -
- September 08, 1819
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Letter from Andrew Jackson to George Gibson, 1819
- Amelia Earhart at Inauguration of the First International Airport Terminal, Pan American Airport, Miami, Florida, 1928 - After her June 1928 transatlantic flight with Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon, in which she became the first woman to fly the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart was given a hero's welcome wherever she went. Receptions in Southampton and London, England, were followed by a ticker-tape parade through New York City and a visit with President Calvin Coolidge at the White House.
- 1928
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Amelia Earhart at Inauguration of the First International Airport Terminal, Pan American Airport, Miami, Florida, 1928
After her June 1928 transatlantic flight with Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon, in which she became the first woman to fly the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart was given a hero's welcome wherever she went. Receptions in Southampton and London, England, were followed by a ticker-tape parade through New York City and a visit with President Calvin Coolidge at the White House.
- Portrait of William Dennison, United States Postmaster General, 1865 - Cartes-de-visite, small, professionally made photographs on cardboard stock, remained popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s. Many were given to friends and loved ones, but enterprising photographers also produced images of famous individuals to sell to the collecting-crazed public. Celebrities, military officers and politicians, such as William Dennison, Abraham Lincoln's second postmaster general, were popular subjects.
- 1865
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Portrait of William Dennison, United States Postmaster General, 1865
Cartes-de-visite, small, professionally made photographs on cardboard stock, remained popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s. Many were given to friends and loved ones, but enterprising photographers also produced images of famous individuals to sell to the collecting-crazed public. Celebrities, military officers and politicians, such as William Dennison, Abraham Lincoln's second postmaster general, were popular subjects.