Photograph of airmail planes at Washington, DC

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Object Details

Description

Two Curtiss JN-4H "Jenny" airmail planes parked at the temporary airmail field at Washington, DC’s Polo Field, a small strip of grassy land between the Tidal Basin and Potomac River.

National Postal Museum, Benjamin Lipsner Collection

Photographer: Unknown

Credit line

National Postal Museum, Benjamin Lipsner Collection Photographer: Unknown

Date

1918

Object number

A.2006-12

Type

Photographs

Medium

paper; photo-emulsion

Place

District of Columbia

United States of America

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National Postal Museum Collection

Data Source

National Postal Museum

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm80c122c91-b7bf-413e-85ad-fd79678ef26e

Record ID

npm_A.2006-12