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| Title | Flying Mail Car in front of terminal at Boeing Field, October 4, 1946 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1946 |
| Caption | Airmail service was several decades old before the US Post Office experimented with sorting mail in flight. Earlier mail planes had been small, but the Fairchild C-82 military transport plane shown here had enough room for a mail car interior, and postal clerks to sort the mail. The plane, on loan to United Airlines, has the words United Flying Mail Car painted on its exterior. Its flight retraced older postal routes from New York to San Francisco to Seattle and also celebrated the inauguration of the Post Office's new 5-cent airmail rate. Postal clerks stamped each letter with a special First Flight Cachet. |
| Notes | Handwritten on negative: Flying Mail Car.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): October 4, 1946. |
| Subjects | Air mail service--Washington (State)--Seattle; Airplanes--Washington (State)--Seattle; Airplane propellors--Washington (State)--Seattle; Airports--Washington (State)--Seattle; Airport control towers--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States—Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.234 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI). |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from film negative using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4, JPEG quality measurement 5. . |
