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177 photos tagged mailacrossthecommons, from 8 members of Flickr Commons.

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• smithsonianinstitution
• nationalpostalmuseum
• usps
• mail
• airmail
• postoffice
• aviation
• airplane
• usmail
• aircraft
• biplane
• blackandwhite
• mailman
• postalservice
• post
• libraryofcongress
• men
• jenny
• aviator
• mailbox
• curtissjn4h
• curtiss
• horse
• postman

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• Smithsonian Institution 146 photos
• The Library of Congress 20 photos
• Florida Memory 4 photos
• Royal Australian Historical Society 2 photos
• State Library of New South Wales 2 photos
• University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections 1 photo
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 1 photo

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Clark (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Art Siegel said:

  see

• Mary said:

  Thanks for spotting Helen Clark. We will update our description, adding her full name.

Patten & Lieut. Webb (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  See

Patten & Lieut. Webb (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  The Smithsonian has a print [arago.si.edu/record_194367_img_1.html] of this, captioned "New York City Postmaster Thomas Patten is photographed handing Lt. Torrey Webb equipment to make ready for one of the first regularly scheduled airmail flights in the United States. On May 15, 1918, the United States officially established airmail service between New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC, under the direction of the Post Office Department, using army aircraft and pilots. The Army Air Corps pilots chosen to fly that day were Lieutenants Howard Culver, Torrey Webb, Walter Miller and Stephen Bonsal. Lt. Webb carried the first day’s mail in this Curtiss "Jenny" aircraft numbered 38278 from a temporary airmail field at Belmont Park, Long Island, New York to Bustleton Field, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. " and dated May 15, 1918.

• swanq said:

  This sequence of photos is related to the first scheduled airmail route. See www.aerofiles.com/airmail.html for details.

• Richard Norton said:

  Torrey Hord Webb (7 December 1892 - 23 November 1975) and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_G._Patten