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Title: First Coast to Coast Air Mail Flight Ends at San Francisco
Date(s): 1930/1940, 1930, 1940
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Keystone View Company (photographer)
Description: Text on verso: 'E. E. Mouton, pilot of the U.S. mail plane, No. 151 which flew from New York to San Francisco, carrying mail. This is the first successful trans-continental air mail flight. Mouton was greeted by Col. John A. Jordan, Supt. of the Western Division of the serial mail service and Postmaster Chas. F. Fay and officials of the San Francisco Post-office.'
Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00533b
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: How the Airmail Works
Date(s): 1925-01-09
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Pacific & Atlantic Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Description: Text on verso: 'Contrary to general opinion, coast-to-coast airmail is not a one-plane-all-the-way proposition, but the remarkable speed and success of the plan is due to the use of 14 planes for each trip from New York to San Francisco, each plane and pilot flying only about 1 1/2 hours and then transferring his load to the next ship. With short flights and frequent relays in this way, the planes can be completely overhauled after each short hop, and accuracy and success assured. Mail is...
Show moreText on verso: 'Contrary to general opinion, coast-to-coast airmail is not a one-plane-all-the-way proposition, but the remarkable speed and success of the plan is due to the use of 14 planes for each trip from New York to San Francisco, each plane and pilot flying only about 1 1/2 hours and then transferring his load to the next ship. With short flights and frequent relays in this way, the planes can be completely overhauled after each short hop, and accuracy and success assured. Mail is also taken on and dispatched from each relay station to and from trains to points not on the airmail route, hence airmail is made available to all cities whether they are on the route of flight or not. This picture shows mail being transferred from a plane which has just arrived to the plane that is to take it on its next hop.'
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Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00535
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: How the Airmail Works
Date(s): 1925-01-09
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Pacific & Atlantic Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Description: Text on verso: 'Contrary to general opinion, coast-to-coast airmail is not a one-plane-all-the-way proposition, but the remarkable speed and success of the plan is due to the use of 14 planes for each trip from New York to San Francisco, each plane and pilot flying only about 1 1/2 hours and then transferring his load to the next ship. With short flights and frequent relays in this way, the planes can be completely overhauled after each short hop, and accuracy and success assured. Mail is...
Show moreText on verso: 'Contrary to general opinion, coast-to-coast airmail is not a one-plane-all-the-way proposition, but the remarkable speed and success of the plan is due to the use of 14 planes for each trip from New York to San Francisco, each plane and pilot flying only about 1 1/2 hours and then transferring his load to the next ship. With short flights and frequent relays in this way, the planes can be completely overhauled after each short hop, and accuracy and success assured. Mail is also taken on and dispatched from each relay station to and from trains to points not on the airmail route, hence airmail is made available to all cities. This photo shows mail being transferred from the plane which has just arrived to the ship about to leave. The air mail planes are De Havilands, with the forward cockpit replaced by a covered compartment in which the mail is carried, 600 pounds can be accommodated on one plane.'
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Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00534
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: New Device Exchanges Mail Bags from Plane!
Date(s): 1929-08-27
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Pacific & Atlantic Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Description: Text on verso: 'An arrangement is being tried out at Youngstown, Ohio, that will receive a bag of mail from a plane and at the same time catapult another bag from the ground to the plane. This enables a plane to take on and distribute mail on the fly.(Photo shows pilot Siever reeling bag into plane).'
Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00538
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: The Old and the New!
Date(s): 1920/1940, 1920, 1940
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Harris & Ewing (photographer)
Description: Text on verso: 'In the days of stage coaches, it took 10 1/2 days from the Missouri River to reach the Pacific Coast and now the air mail flies it in 20 hours.'
Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00539
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: How the Airmail Works
Date(s): 1925-01-09
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Pacific & Atlantic Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Description: Text on verso: 'Contrary to general opinion, coast-to-coast airmail is not a one-plane-all-the-way proposition, but the remarkable speed and success of the plan is due to the use of 14 planes for each trip from New York to San Francisco, each plane and pilot flying only about 1 1/2 hours and then transferring his load to the next ship. With short flights and frequent relays in this way, the planes can be completely overhauled after each short hop, and accuracy and success assured. Mail is...
Show moreText on verso: 'Contrary to general opinion, coast-to-coast airmail is not a one-plane-all-the-way proposition, but the remarkable speed and success of the plan is due to the use of 14 planes for each trip from New York to San Francisco, each plane and pilot flying only about 1 1/2 hours and then transferring his load to the next ship. With short flights and frequent relays in this way, the planes can be completely overhauled after each short hop, and accuracy and success assured. Mail is also taken on and dispatched from each relay station to and from trains to points not on the airmail route, hence airmail is made available to all cities whether they are on the route of flight or not. This photo shows an airmail plane arriving at Salt Lake City field (center) with the next plane (left) all ready to take off as soon as the mail is transferred.'
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Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00536
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: Sorting Mail en Route on Plane Predicted
Date(s): 1930/1940, 1930, 1940
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.) (photographer)
Description: Text on verso: 'The sorting of air mail while en route in the plane just as is done on railway mail cars, is predicted as a necessary time-saver in the future transportation of mail in the flying post offices of the future. The mail will be distributed according to points of destination into pneumatic mail tube carriers which upon arrival of the plane at an airport, will immediately be shot by compressed air through the tube system into the nearest post office. Several bills now in Congress,...
Show moreText on verso: 'The sorting of air mail while en route in the plane just as is done on railway mail cars, is predicted as a necessary time-saver in the future transportation of mail in the flying post offices of the future. The mail will be distributed according to points of destination into pneumatic mail tube carriers which upon arrival of the plane at an airport, will immediately be shot by compressed air through the tube system into the nearest post office. Several bills now in Congress, if passed, will make possible this system, in which a letter mailed in New York in the morning will be delivered in Chicago the afternoon of the same day. Photo shows the landing of a flying post office of the furture with the airmail in metal containers.'
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Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00541
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: New Device Exchanges Mail Bags from Plane!
Date(s): 1929-08-27
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Pacific & Atlantic Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Description: Text on verso: 'An arrangement is being tried out at Youngstown, Ohio, that will receive a bag of mail from a plane and at the same time catapult another bag from the ground to the plane. This enables a plane to take on and distribute mail on the fly.(Photo shows the plane flying over the catapult in trials).'
Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00549
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: Shirley J. Short and Harry G. Smith, air mail pilots
Date(s): 1927-06-10
Contributor(s): United States. Post Office Department (associated name), United States. War Department (associated name), Underwood & Underwood (copyright claimant )
Collection ID: United States Air Mail Service photographs (Accession 1982.328)
Hagley ID: AVD_1982_328_016
Collection: United States Air Mail Service photographs

Title: Harry Smith, air mail pilot
Date(s): 1927
Contributor(s): United States. Post Office Department (associated name), United States. War Department (associated name), Underwood & Underwood (copyright claimant )
Collection ID: United States Air Mail Service photographs (Accession 1982.328)
Hagley ID: AVD_1982_328_018
Collection: United States Air Mail Service photographs

Title: As air mail grew (No 3 of a series)
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): United Air Lines, Inc. (photographer), Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America (originator)
Description: 25th anniversary of coast-to-coast airway observed at New York's LaGuardia Airport
Collection ID: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs and audiovisual materials, Series II. Nation's Business photographs (Accession 1993.230.II)
Hagley ID: PC20101231_016
Collection: Chamber of Commerce of the United States collections

Title: As commercial flying opened (No 1 of a series)
Date(s): 1925
Contributor(s): United Air Lines, Inc. (photographer), Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America (originator)
Description: Swallow bi-plane used on first privately contracted air mail routes.
Collection ID: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs and audiovisual materials, Series II. Nation's Business photographs (Accession 1993.230.II)
Hagley ID: PC20101231_018
Collection: Chamber of Commerce of the United States collections

Title: Cloud courier of '27 (No 2 of a series)
Date(s): 1927
Contributor(s): United Air Lines, Inc. (photographer), Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America (originator)
Description: Boeing 40-B2's of this type carried mail and passengers between San Francisco and Chicago in 1927 on the 1,918-mile route of Boeing Air Transport, a predecessor company of United Air lines which marks its 25th anniversary this year. Payload of the single-engined transport plane was 1,000 pounds, including two passengers, mail and baggage. Cruising speed was 105 miles an hour, compared with five-mile-a-minute, 50-passenger DC-6 Mainliners of today. (1951?)
Collection ID: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs and audiovisual materials, Series II. Nation's Business photographs (Accession 1993.230.II)
Hagley ID: PC20101231_003
Collection: Chamber of Commerce of the United States collections

Title: United Air Lines single engined mail-passenger biplane
Date(s): 1927
Contributor(s): Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America (originator)
Collection ID: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs and audiovisual materials, Series II. Nation's Business photographs (Accession 1993.230.II)
Hagley ID: PC20101231_006
Collection: Chamber of Commerce of the United States collections

Title: Plane in flight with stunt performers
Date(s): 1925?
Contributor(s): United States. Post Office Department (associated name), United States. War Department (associated name), Underwood & Underwood (copyright claimant )
Collection ID: United States Air Mail Service photographs (Accession 1982.328)
Hagley ID: AVD_1982_328_005
Collection: United States Air Mail Service photographs

Title: Aerial view of lower Manhattan through a rift in the clouds
Date(s): 1927
Contributor(s): United States. Post Office Department (associated name), United States. War Department (associated name), Publishers Photo Service, Inc. (copyright claimant )
Collection ID: United States Air Mail Service photographs (Accession 1982.328)
Hagley ID: AVD_1982_328_023
Collection: United States Air Mail Service photographs

Title: Aerial view of clouds over Manhattann
Date(s): 1927
Contributor(s): United States. Post Office Department (associated name), United States. War Department (associated name), Underwood & Underwood (associated name), Stratton & Stratton (New York, N.Y.) (copyright claimant )
Collection ID: United States Air Mail Service photographs (Accession 1982.328)
Hagley ID: AVD_1982_328_021
Collection: United States Air Mail Service photographs

Title: Loading an air mail plane
Date(s): 1925-06-25
Contributor(s): United States. Post Office Department (associated name), United States. War Department (associated name), Underwood & Underwood (copyright claimant )
Collection ID: United States Air Mail Service photographs (Accession 1982.328)
Hagley ID: AVD_1982_328_009
Collection: United States Air Mail Service photographs

Title: Henry Ford receiving bag of mail from Postmaster Kellogg
Date(s): 1926-02-16
Contributor(s): United States. Post Office Department (associated name), United States. War Department (associated name), Underwood & Underwood (copyright claimant )
Collection ID: United States Air Mail Service photographs (Accession 1982.328)
Hagley ID: AVD_1982_328_012
Collection: United States Air Mail Service photographs

Title: U.S. Airplane Mail Station 'Mail Tent'
Date(s): 1911-09
Contributor(s): United States. Post Office Department (associated name), United States. War Department (associated name), Underwood & Underwood (copyright claimant )
Collection ID: United States Air Mail Service photographs (Accession 1982.328)
Hagley ID: AVD_1982_328_001
Collection: United States Air Mail Service photographs

Title: Henry Ford loading freight onto plane
Date(s): 1925-04-15
Contributor(s): United States. Post Office Department (associated name), United States. War Department (associated name), Underwood & Underwood (copyright claimant )
Collection ID: United States Air Mail Service photographs (Accession 1982.328)
Hagley ID: AVD_1982_328_006
Collection: United States Air Mail Service photographs

Title: Rescue plane in flight
Date(s): 1929-02
Contributor(s): United States. Post Office Department (associated name), United States. War Department (associated name), Underwood & Underwood (copyright claimant )
Collection ID: United States Air Mail Service photographs (Accession 1982.328)
Hagley ID: AVD_1982_328_027
Collection: United States Air Mail Service photographs

Title: Package with gold thimble from Edith Wilson
Date(s): 1918-05-18
Contributor(s): United States. Post Office Department (associated name), United States. War Department (associated name), Underwood & Underwood (copyright claimant )
Collection ID: United States Air Mail Service photographs (Accession 1982.328)
Hagley ID: AVD_1982_328_002
Collection: United States Air Mail Service photographs

Title: Boeing monomail
Date(s): 1930
Contributor(s): United States. Post Office Department (associated name), United States. War Department (associated name), Underwood & Underwood (copyright claimant )
Collection ID: United States Air Mail Service photographs (Accession 1982.328)
Hagley ID: AVD_1982_328_030
Collection: United States Air Mail Service photographs

Title: Harry Huking, air mail pilot
Date(s): 1929
Contributor(s): United States. Post Office Department (associated name), United States. War Department (associated name), Underwood & Underwood (copyright claimant )
Collection ID: United States Air Mail Service photographs (Accession 1982.328)
Hagley ID: AVD_1982_328_026
Collection: United States Air Mail Service photographs

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