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Box 6

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

US Airmail 28¢ postcards commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first non-stop trans-Pacific flight by Pangborn and Herndon, 1931. First Day of Issue cancellation, Wenatchee, WA., January 2, 1981.

 Item — Box: 6, Folder: 26, Item: 15-16
Identifier: Subseries 2.2:
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The earliest photograph depicts the brothers Albert and Gaston Tissandier with their airship, the first to use electric navigation; it is dated October 8, 1883, and is signed by both brothers. Contemporary photographic prints relating to the Wright brothers include the brothers posing with the "1904 Flyer" at Huffman Prairie (Simms Station), 1904; Wilbur Wright, F. S. Lahm, and Hart O. Berg with the Wright airplane at HunaudiŠres au Mans (Sarthe), France, 1908; and a Wright flyer...
Dates: January 2, 1981.