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MAKE A MEME View Large Image Airmail employees at a Chicago airmail field unloading mail from a recently arrived de Havilland mail airplane. A Post Office Department driver poses with the truck he will use to bring the mail to the Chicago post office. By the summer of ...

Airmail employees at a Chicago airmail field unloading mail from a recently arrived de Havilland mail airplane. A Post Office Department driver poses with the truck he will use to bring the mail to the Chicago post office. By the summer of ...

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Keywords: smithsonian institution smithsonianinstitution de havilland dehavilland airmail usps chicago dehavilland dh.4b dehavillanddh4b dh.4 dh4 dh.4b dh4b airplane aircraft aviation early mail earlymail biplane mailmen airport plane propellar early 20 th ce early20thce national postal museum nationalpostalmuseum mail across the commons mailacrossthecommons blackandwhite monochrome black and white Description: Airmail employees at a Chicago airmail field unloading mail from a recently arrived de Havilland mail airplane. A Post Office Department driver poses with the truck he will use to bring the mail to the Chicago post office. By the summer of 1924, airmail was being flown across the country in just over 30 hours, a dramatic improvement over the two to three days mail traveled by train. Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer Medium: Black and white photographic print Culture: American Geography: USA Date: 1920-12-31 Repository: National Postal Museum Collection: Benjamin Lipsner Collection Gift line: Gift of Benjamin Lipsner Accession number: A.2008-14 Persistent URL: arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&amp;cmd=1&amp;id=194366 View more collections from the Smithsonian Institution. Description: Airmail employees at a Chicago airmail field unloading mail from a recently arrived de Havilland mail airplane. A Post Office Department driver poses with the truck he will use to bring the mail to the Chicago post office. By the summer of 1924, airmail was being flown across the country in just over 30 hours, a dramatic improvement over the two to three days mail traveled by train. Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer Medium: Black and white photographic print Culture: American Geography: USA Date: 1920-12-31 Repository: National Postal Museum Collection: Benjamin Lipsner Collection Gift line: Gift of Benjamin Lipsner Accession number: A.2008-14 Persistent URL: arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=194366 View more collections from the Smithsonian Institution.