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Photograph of de Havilland airmail plane #299
Object Details
- Description
- Modified de Havilland airmail plane, number 299. This version of the basic de Havilland airmail plane could hold 1000 pounds of mail (twice as much as a regular de Havilland mail plane). Postal officials nicknamed it the “pregnant cow.”
- Photographer: Unknown
- Credit line
- National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: Unknown
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- c. 1920
- Object number
- A.2006-1
- Type
- Photographs
- Medium
- paper; photo-emulsion
- Place
- United States of America
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Record ID
- npm_A.2006-1
- Usage
- Not determined
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