Photograph of airmail office at Chicago

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Object Details

Description

Pranksters decorated the outside of the airmail office at Checkerboard airmail field, Chicago, Illinois.

Photographer: E. J. Pearson

Credit line

National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: E. J. Pearson

Date

1920

Object number

A.2006-7

Type

Photographs

Medium

paper; photo-emulsion

Place

Illinois

United States of America

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National Postal Museum Collection

Data Source

National Postal Museum

Topic

Post Office Structures

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm87ffc4c02-1ee4-4fb9-b6f9-75b987eee7f1

Record ID

npm_A.2006-7