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First letter (or one of the first letters) sent by U.S. airmail, from U.S. Postmaster Albert S. Burleson to the editor of the New York Sun. Over half the letter is devoted to extolling the virtues of tobacco!

  • Title: NEW YORK SUN. FIRST AIR MAIL LETTER, 1918
  • Creator(s): Harris & Ewing, photographer
  • Date Created/Published: 1918.
  • Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller
  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-hec-20588 (digital file from original negative)
  • Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
  • Call Number: LC-H25- 91223-A [P&P]
  • Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
  • Notes:
    • Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
    • Portrait series.
    • Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
    • General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
  • Format:
    • Glass negatives.
  • Collections:
    • Harris & Ewing Collection
  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-hec-20588 (digital file from original negative)
  • Call Number: LC-H25- 91223-A [P&P]
  • Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller
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Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2009007286/
Author Albert S. Burleson
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