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Photograph of airmail plane Curtiss JN-4H
Object Details
- Description
- Curtiss JN-4H “Jenny” airmail plane being positioned for takeoff for the first regularly scheduled airmail service. The airplane is taking off from the temporary airfield at Washington DC’s Polo Field, a small strip of grassy land between the Tidal Basin and Potomac River.
- Photographer: Unknown
- Credit line
- National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: Unknown
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- May 15, 1918
- Object number
- A.2006-3
- Type
- Photographs
- Medium
- paper; photo-emulsion
- Place
- District of Columbia
- United States of America
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Record ID
- npm_A.2006-3
- Usage
- Not determined
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