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Letters with Wings
The Dream of Airmail, 1918-1938
In less than two decades, the Post Office Department developed airmail from an experimental service into a profitable business an, in the process, laid the foundations of today's civilian airline industry. By 1938, the airmail network's spanned the entire country and extended to more than three dozen foreign countries.
In 2018 the National Postal Museum will celebrate the 100th anniversary of regularly scheduled airmail by presenting a special exhibition tentatively titled "Letters With Wings." These cases contain a sampling of the material than will be included and the themes to be addressed. |