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Photograph of de Havilland airmail plane #299

Description:

Modified de Havilland airmail plane, number 299. This version of the basic de Havilland airmail plane could hold 1000 pounds of mail (twice as much as a regular de Havilland mail plane). Postal officials nicknamed it the “pregnant cow.”

Photographer: Unknown

Date:

c. 1920

Medium:

paper; photo-emulsion

Museum ID:

A.2006-1

Place:

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Credits:

National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection
Photographer: Unknown

de Havilland airmail plane #299
Photographer: Unknown
Date created: c. 1920
Modified de Havilland airmail plane, number 299. This version of the basic de Havilland airmail plane could hold 1000 pounds of mail (twice as much as a regular de Havilland mail plane). Postal officials nicknamed it the “pregnant cow.”
National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection

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