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Unloading mail in Omaha, Nebraska
Photographer: Unknown
Date created: July 2, 1924
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 at 1:50 am on July 2, 1924. Pilots flew day and night, using beacons and field flood lights for navigation in the dark.
National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection
Photo ID: A.2006-0008
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