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Photograph of airmail being unloaded in Omaha, Nebraska
Object Details
- Description
- Postal employees unloading mail from the first regularly scheduled transcontinental airmail service. This airplane was the first to arrive flying from west to east. It reached Omaha, Nebraska at 1:50 am on July 2, 1924. Pilots flew day and night, using beacons and field flood lights for navigation in the dark.
- Photographer: Unknown
- Credit line
- National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: Unknown
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- July 2, 1924
- Object number
- A.2006-8
- Type
- Photographs
- Medium
- paper; photo-emulsion
- Place
- Nebraska
- United States of America
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Record ID
- npm_A.2006-8
- Usage
- Not determined
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