At start of plane mail service, Photograph shows pilot Torrey Webb (second from right) receiving a celebratory watch from a Hamilton Watch Co. representative. Webb flew a Curtiss Jenny JN-4H airplane between New York City and Bustleton airfield near Philadelphia on May 15, 1918 as one of the first regularly scheduled airmail flights in the United States., 1918 May 15, Glass negatives, 1 negative: glass

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