File:New York City Postmaster Thomas G. Patten and airmail pilot Lt. Torrey Webb (2550395033).jpg

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English: Description: Postmaster Patten is photographed handing Lt. Webb a bag of airmail letters for one of the first regularly scheduled airmail flights in the United States. On May 15, 1918, the United States officially established airmail service between New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., under the direction of the Post Office Department, using army aircraft and pilots. The army pilots chosen to fly that day were Lieutenants Howard Culver, Torrey Webb, Walter Miller and Stephen Bonsal. Lt. Torrey Webb carried the first day's mail in this Curtiss Jenny aircraft numbered 38278 from a temporary airmail field at Belmont Park, Long Island, New York to Bustleton Field, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Culture: American

Geography: USA

Date: 1918

Collection: U.S. Airmail Service

Repository: National Postal Museum

Accession number: A.2008-15

Persistent URL: arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=194367

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