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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: Postal Service truck
Date(s): 1935/1970, 1935, 1970
Contributor(s): Loewy, Raymond, 1893-1986 (designer)
Collection ID: Raymond Loewy collection of photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 2004.255)
Hagley ID: 2004255_0103
Collection: Raymond Loewy collections

Title: Postal Service truck
Date(s): 1935/1970, 1935, 1970
Contributor(s): Loewy, Raymond, 1893-1986 (designer)
Collection ID: Raymond Loewy collection of photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 2004.255)
Hagley ID: 2004255_0105
Collection: Raymond Loewy collections

Title: The Swift Completion
Date(s): 1966~, 1966
Contributor(s): New York Central Railroad Company (sponsor), Stark, Charles (narrator), Moon, Jake (screenwriter), FPS New York (producer)
Description: Version Number 1, prints 2A and 3A. Shows how railroads handle the United States mail service, including new Flexi-Van service on the New York Central Railroad, where truck bodies are loaded directly on to flat cars.
Collection ID: Conrail photographs (Accession 1993.231)
Hagley ID: FILM_1993231_FC01
Collection: Conrail photographs and films, Film and Video

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: Pennsylvania Railroad mail truck with rubber drive cup tires
Date(s): 1942-06-25
Contributor(s): Pennsylvania Railroad (Corporate Name) (originator)
Collection ID: Pennsylvania Railroad negative collection (Accession 1993.300)
Hagley ID: PRR_13679
Collection: Pennsylvania Railroad negatives

Title: Pennsylvania Railroad mail truck with wooden tire
Date(s): 1942-03-25
Contributor(s): Pennsylvania Railroad (Corporate Name) (originator)
Collection ID: Pennsylvania Railroad negative collection (Accession 1993.300)
Hagley ID: PRR_13525
Collection: Pennsylvania Railroad negatives

Title: Rubber tire made up of worn out rubber drive cups
Date(s): 1942-06-25
Contributor(s): Pennsylvania Railroad (Corporate Name) (originator)
Collection ID: Pennsylvania Railroad negative collection (Accession 1993.300)
Hagley ID: PRR_13680
Collection: Pennsylvania Railroad negatives

Title: Postal Service truck
Date(s): 1970
Contributor(s): Loewy, Raymond, 1893-1986 (designer)
Collection ID: Raymond Loewy collection of photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 2004.255)
Hagley ID: 2004255_0104
Collection: Raymond Loewy collections

Title: Postal Talks
Date(s): 1984-08-13
Description: A local Washington, D.C. news segment discussing contract negotiations between the United States Postal Service and its two largest unions. Of greatest concern to letter carriers is the threat to job security posed by electronic mail, such as MCI Mail. Featuring an interview with Bill Stern.
Collection ID: MCI Communications Corporation photographs and audiovisual materials (2000.239)
Hagley ID: VID_2000239_B52_ID04
Collection: MCI Communications Corporation collections

Title: Wark Company Builders to Delaware Land Development Co., 1929-06-24
Date(s): 1929-06-24
Contributor(s): Du Pont, William, 1896-1965 (former owner), Wark Company Builders (originator)
Description: Letter with photograph enclosure from Wark Company Builders to Delaware Land Development Co. concerning the installation of the Cutler brand mail chute to be installed in the Delaware Trust Building.
Collection ID: William du Pont family papers (Accession 2317)
Hagley ID: 2317_2_0972
Collection: William du Pont family collections

Title: Cutler Mail Chute Preparatory Work Steel Angle Frame Full Size Detail
Date(s): 1928
Contributor(s): Du Pont, William, 1896-1965 (former owner), Cutler Mail Chute Co. (originator)
Description: Guide for preparatory work for the installation of a Cutler brand mail chute in the wall of a building.
Collection ID: William du Pont family papers (Accession 2317)
Hagley ID: 2317_2_0969
Collection: William du Pont family collections

Title: MCI Mail Direct - DuPont Version
Date(s): 1992-12-01
Contributor(s): MCI Communications Corporation (originator), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (sponsor), Marshall, Don (commentator)
Description: Promotional piece explaining MCI Mail Direct, with customer testimonials. Includes introduction by Don Marshall of DuPont Co.
Collection ID: MCI Communications Corporation photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 2000.239)
Hagley ID: vid_2000239_B98_ID92-4-11-35-2
Collection: MCI Communications Corporation collections

Title: MCI Mail Direct: The Breakthrough
Date(s): 1993-08-01
Contributor(s): MCI Communications Corporation (spn)
Description: Promotional piece explaining MCI Mail Direct with customer testimonials. Includes introduction by Don Marshall, Team Leader, Customer Service Support IMED, E.I. Du Pont De Nemours, Inc.
Collection ID: MCI Communications Corporation photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 2000.239)
Hagley ID: VID_2000239_B105_ID02
Collection: MCI Communications Corporation collections

Title: Man mailing a letter inside post office at Bushkill, Pennsylvania
Date(s): 1921/1925?, 1921, 1925
Contributor(s): Schoonover, Frank E., 1877-1972 (photographer)
Collection ID: Frank E. Schoonover negatives (Accession 2017.239)
Hagley ID: 2017239_05_300
Collection: Frank E. Schoonover negatives

Title: Small mail boat in Jamaica
Date(s): 1906
Contributor(s): Schoonover, Frank E., 1877-1972 (photographer)
Collection ID: Frank E. Schoonover negatives (Accession 2017.239)
Hagley ID: 2017239_05_068
Collection: Frank E. Schoonover negatives

Title: Group inside post office at Bushkill, Pennsylvania
Date(s): 1921/1925?, 1921, 1925
Contributor(s): Schoonover, Frank E., 1877-1972 (photographer)
Collection ID: Frank E. Schoonover negatives (Accession 2017.239)
Hagley ID: 2017239_05_299
Collection: Frank E. Schoonover negatives

Title: Elizabeth "Biz" Schoonover inside post office at Bushkill, Pennsylvania
Date(s): 1921/1925?, 1921, 1925
Contributor(s): Schoonover, Frank E., 1877-1972 (photographer)
Collection ID: Frank E. Schoonover negatives (Accession 2017.239)
Hagley ID: 2017239_05_302
Collection: Frank E. Schoonover negatives