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- Drawing of Airmarker for the American Car and Foundry Company, Berwick, Pennsylvania, September 1929 - Philanthropist Daniel Guggenheim established a Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics in 1926. The fund supported a town identification project encouraging every American community to paint its name and a north-pointing arrow on the roof of a prominent building. Recommended letter height was 12 feet -- to be plainly visible from airplanes 3,000 feet in the sky.
- September 29, 1927
- Collections - Artifact
Drawing of Airmarker for the American Car and Foundry Company, Berwick, Pennsylvania, September 1929
Philanthropist Daniel Guggenheim established a Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics in 1926. The fund supported a town identification project encouraging every American community to paint its name and a north-pointing arrow on the roof of a prominent building. Recommended letter height was 12 feet -- to be plainly visible from airplanes 3,000 feet in the sky.