- Home
- Collections
- Search the Collection
- Photograph of airmail pilots Edison Mouton and Rexford Levisee
Photograph of airmail pilots Edison Mouton and Rexford Levisee
Object Details
- Description
- Edison E. Mouton and Rexford Levisee were employed by the US Post Office Department as airmail pilots. They are posed in front of an airmail service biplane at Reno, Nevada. Mouton served as an airmail pilot from September 8, 1920 until May 22, 1927. Levisee served as an airmail pilot from November 9, 1920 to January 14, 1921, and from February 24, 1921 until June 30, 1927. Both pilots were assigned to San Francisco, California, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Reno, Nevada during their careers. On September 11, 1920, Mouton flew the last leg of the nation's first cross-country airmail flight, landing at Marina Field, California after flying the 250 miles from Reno to San Francisco in one hour and fifty-eight minutes, a new flight record for that distance. Levisee came to the Airmail Service from the Army Signal Corps. His most dramatic airmail flight was on June 25, 1927 when he was forced down on the summit of Elko Mountain, 12 miles east of the Elko, Nevada, airmail field. Levisee noted in his report on the crash, "before I knew it, airplane and I were flat on our backs in the Sierras."
- National Postal Museum,
- Photographer: Unknown
- Credit line
- National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: Unknown
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- c. 1921
- Object number
- A.2009-23
- Type
- Photographs
- Medium
- paper; photo-emulsion
- Dimensions
- Height x Width: 7 x 9 in. (17.78 x 22.86 cm)
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Record ID
- npm_A.2009-23
- Usage
- Not determined
There are restrictions for re-using this image. For more information, visit the Smithsonian's Terms of Use page .
International media Interoperability Framework
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more.