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Photograph of airmail pilot Ira Biffle
Object Details
- Description
- Airmail pilot Ira Biffle posing in winter flight gear leaning on his airplane in Chicago, Illinois. Biffle served as an airmail pilot for the Post Office Department from 1918-1919 and 1923-1927. In 1922, while serving as a flying instructor in Lincoln, Nebraska, Biffle taught flying to a lanky young man named Charles Lindbergh.
- Photographer: E. J. Pearson
- Credit line
- National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: E. J. Pearson
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- c. 1927
- Object number
- A.2006-5
- Depicts
- Ira Biffle
- Type
- Photographs
- Medium
- paper; photo-emulsion
- Place
- United States of America
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Record ID
- npm_A.2006-5
- Usage
- Not determined
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