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Auction: 364 - Autographs & Documents e-Auction featuring the Mike Roth Aviation Collection Part I
Lot: 108

Early Airmail assortment: 9 ¼ x 6 ¾ First Transcontinental Air Mail Flight on snowy field; 6 5/8 x 4 ½ - Postmaster general Frank Hitchcock handing bag of mail to pilot seated in cockpit, Garden City, L.I., NY Sept 23, 1911 (image reused 1939); 9 ¼ x 7 1/8 - early airmail plane; 10 x 4 - First coast-to-coast mail plane (United Airlines archive); 8 x 10s: Edward Hubbard and W.E. Boeing before plane on completion of first Seattle-Victoria BC international airmail route (Boeing Aircraft); Hubbard with his flying boat (attached 1939 press release); Flying boat delivering mail; Postmaster Austin Jackson handing pilot mail bag for first scheduled Reno-San Francisco airmail, July 2, 1924 (white caption superimposed on front); Air mail plane flying over mountain range 1928-1929; Montana airmail plane (positioning marks and instructions on front); 1936 Airmail plane with US Mail truck; De Haviland M2 Airmail plane Chicago-Omaha (United Airlines archive); De Haviland Airmail plane; Airmail Week 1938 promo with insets of Pilot L.G. Fritz who flew first commercial airmail, 1926 and S.D. Welch who dispatched it, with the plane, and TWA Skysleeper; First transcontinental and transatlantic airmail service; Airmail plane in field with small crowd of farmers, 1925 (US Army Air Corps); 1940's United Airlines archives photos -- Mail Express plane San Francisco-Chicago 1927; early airmail plane and US mail truck; airmail plane set to take off with crowd gathered; First Air Express Flight, Mitchell Field 1919 - loading the mail. A few with positioning marks on front, one with filing punchholes in margin. [20]

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