Sujet
First Official Air Mail Flight
Légende
Garden City, New York: September 23, 1911
The first official airmail flight in the United States with pilot Earle Lewis Ovington in a Bleriot XI airplane, receiving a bag of mail from U.S. Postmaster General Frank Harris Hitchcock as New York City Postmaster Edward M. Morgan, (far left) watches. The event took place at the Nassau Boulevard Aerodrome International Aviation Meet in Garden City on Long Island. © Underwood Archives / The Image Works
Date
23 sept. 1911
Crédit
Photo12/Underwood Archives/UIG
Notre référence
UMG20A17_042
Model release
Non
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
54,7Mo (9,3Mo) / 43,2cm x 31,8cm / 5100 x 3750 (300dpi)