At start of air mail service – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: At start of air mail service, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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At start of air mail service
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The title points to the beginning of airmail service, most likely the first official U.S. airmail route, which opened on May 15, 1918, between Washington and New York with a stop in Philadelphia. The record gives no date, and the title comes from caption information the Bain News Service supplied and has not been verified. Bain operated as a news photo agency from about 1901 to 1932, selling pictures of current events to newspapers, so its glass negatives document the everyday news of that era.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,884 × 3,334 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-28041 |
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