Old Meets New

Creator

Preview

Identifier

20085513

Description

When American Airlines' Midnight Expediter, a flying post office on a demonstration flight, made its pickup and delivery at Fort Worth Tuesday, Fort Worth's incoming and outgoing mail was taken to the plane's side in a stage coach. Delivering the Fort Worth outgoing mail are, left to right, H. E. Coale, divisional superintentdent of the Railway Mail Service; J. H. Wiseman, American Airlines sales manager; Mayor Roscoe Carnrike, and Postmaster Henry Young.

Archival Date

1946-10-01

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-1-1-44

Original Format

Prints, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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License

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Subjects

Midnight Expediter; Coale, H. E.; Wiseman, J. H.; Carnrike, Roscoe (Mayor); Young, Henry; Stage coaches; Postmaster; Planes; Railway Mail Service