Air Mail Plane Picking Up Mail Bag, Teterboro, New Jersey, 1928, "For Speeding up Your Air Mail!"
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Regular air mail service started in the United States in 1918 with flights between New York City and Washington, D.C. This photograph shows a system for nonstop mail pickup. Two people held a rope, suspended from bamboo poles, with a mailbag tied to it. A hook from the airplane grabbed the rope, and the mailbag was reeled into the plane.
Regular air mail service started in the United States in 1918 with flights between New York City and Washington, D.C. This photograph shows a system for nonstop mail pickup. Two people held a rope, suspended from bamboo poles, with a mailbag tied to it. A hook from the airplane grabbed the rope, and the mailbag was reeled into the plane.
Artifact
Photographic print
Date Made
17 October 1928
Subject Date
17 October 1928
Keywords
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.1.1629.197
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8 in
Width: 10.125 in
Inscriptions
attached press release: WATCH YOUR CREDIT--- "P & A PHOTOS" / 181404 / FOR SPEEDING UP YOUR AIR MAIL! / Mr. Clyde E. Pangborn of the Teteboro [sic], New Jersey Airport, has designed a new system for mail planes to pick up mail while still en route. Two men hold a rope apart with / tall bamboo sticks, the hook from the plane / grasps this rope, which is them reeled in, with a mailbag tied to the end [...] / B-NY-E-SFM -10-17-28
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