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English: James Clark Edgerton on May 15, 1918.
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https://www.amazon.com/EDGERTON-AIRMAIL-SERVICE-Vintage-Photograph/dp/B004J7MEBS Smithsonian captionJames C. Edgerton was an army lieutenant and pilot who helped get America's airmail service off the ground. Edgerton was one of a group of army air corps pilots who flew the mail for the Post Office Department from May 18 - August 8, 1918. On the first day of the service Edgerton flew from the mail from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Washington, DC. This photograph shows Lt. Edgerton posed in front of his Curtiss JN-4H "Jenny" mail airplane with his younger sister. National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: Unknown. Original Corbis captionLieutenant James C. Edgerton holding roses given to him by his sister Elizabeth after finishing the last stretch of the airmail flight from Philadelphia to Washington. He flew the last leg of the first regular airmail route flight from DC to Philadelphia to New York and back. Edgerton had only one emergency landing in his 52 airmail flights. |
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| 2012-10-28 17:26 | 2231×2691× (4670714 bytes) | Centpacrr | Reduce image resolution from 600dpi to 300dpi for more reasonable file size. |
| 2012-10-28 17:23 | 4462×5382× (23316148 bytes) | Centpacrr | Replace watermarked and copyright protected "Corbis" version of image with free version from Flicker. |
| 2012-10-28 16:29 | 343×480× (52648 bytes) | Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) | [[James C. Edgerton]] on May 15, 1918. {{PD-US}} ==Sources== http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/SF317/pilot-james-c-edgerton-and-his-sister http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/4011376770/ http://www.airmailpioneers.org/Saga/Ed... |
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| 01:18, 1 March 2016 |  | 4,462 × 5,382 (22.24 MB) | OgreBot | (BOT): Uploading old version of file from en.wikipedia; originally uploaded on 2012-10-28 17:23:04 by Centpacrr | |
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| 03:17, 28 February 2016 |  | 2,231 × 2,691 (4.45 MB) | FastilyClone | Transferred from enwp |
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