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[67/93] Top image: "Serious Business: Grim-visaged National Air Transport (NAT) employees supervise the loading of sacks of U.S. mail onto a plane at Hadley Airport near New Brunswick, N.J. in 1927. Note the parachute-laden pilot." Bottom image: "Today the mail carried by wide-bodied aircraft is placed into containers which are lifted by loaders and rolled onto the lower decks of the aircraft.", 1927, 1977
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14, Item: 2
Identifier: Series 2.
Series Scope and Content
From the Series:
Photographs and other materials used to illustrate Phillip H. Ault, By the Seat of Their Parts; The Story of Early Aviation (New York: Dodd, Mead, c1978). The bulk of the material concerns the history of aviation in the United States from 1900 to 1950, with special emphasis on the Wright brothers, barnstormers, the first flight around the world in 1924, early air mail carriers, Charles Lindbergh, the Dole Derby of 1927, Amelia Earhart, and Douglas...
Dates:
1927, 1977
Found in:
01 - Special Collections & Archives, The Claremont Colleges Library
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Phillip H. Ault Aviation collection
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Photographs and other materials to illustrate <title render="italic">By the Seat of Their Pants</title>
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Photographs used in <title render="italic">By the Seat of Their Pants</title>