Keywords: smithsonian institution smithsonianinstitution pilot airmail usps portrait goggles propeller curtiss jn-4 jn4 curtiss jenny curtissjenny jn-4h jn4h jenny curtiss jn-4 curtissjn4 leather jacket leatherjacket aviation aircraft airplane biplane aviator piloy black and white blackandwhite boot prop plane propplane plane prop national postal museum nationalpostalmuseum mail across the commons mailacrossthecommons monochrome black and white Description: Airmail pilot Eddie Gardner posing with a JH-4H "Jenny" Post Office Department mail airplane. Gardner is wearing leather leggings and a leather helmet that are now in the collections of the National Postal Museum. Gardner worked as an airmail pilot for the Department from August 1918 to April 1919. Six Curtiss JN-4H airplanes were provided by the Army to the Department for use on the first regularly scheduled airmail flights in the United States. Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer Medium: Black and white photographic print Culture: American Geography: USA Date: 1918 Collection: Benjamin Lipsner Collection Repository: National Postal Museum Gift line: Gift of Benjamin Lipsner Accession number: A.2008-1 Persistent URL: arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=194353 View more collections from the Smithsonian Institution. Description: Airmail pilot Eddie Gardner posing with a JH-4H "Jenny" Post Office Department mail airplane. Gardner is wearing leather leggings and a leather helmet that are now in the collections of the National Postal Museum. Gardner worked as an airmail pilot for the Department from August 1918 to April 1919. Six Curtiss JN-4H airplanes were provided by the Army to the Department for use on the first regularly scheduled airmail flights in the United States. Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer Medium: Black and white photographic print Culture: American Geography: USA Date: 1918 Collection: Benjamin Lipsner Collection Repository: National Postal Museum Gift line: Gift of Benjamin Lipsner Accession number: A.2008-1 Persistent URL: arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=194353 View more collections from the Smithsonian Institution. |