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Letter to William E. Boeing from Office of the Postmaster, March 3, 1919. Acknowledges receipt of "one sack of mail from Vancouver, B.C. as the first international airplane mail ever received in Seattle, Washington" and offers congratulations. One…

Newspaper clipping, "City sends first mail to Seattle by aeroplane," from the Vancouver Daily Star, March 4, 1919. Reports on the first international mail flight from Seattle, Washington to Vancouver, B.C. Includes photographs of E. S. Knowlton,…

Letter to William E. Boeing from [illegible] Manager, Canadian Official Great War Exhibit, March 6, 1919. Informs Boeing that they have enclosed the original letter that WEB brought from Seattle Mayor Ole Hanson to Vancouver, B.C. on a recent airmail…

Newspaper clipping, "Air mail service to Alaska urged," from the Seattle Sunday Times, March 9, 1919. Discusses a possible air mail route between Seattle, Washington and Alaska. Includes a photograph of the Boeing CL-4S aircraft and a photograph of…

Letter to Editor, Colonist newspaper, Victoria, B.C., from William E. Boeing, March 19, 1919. Requests that they return the letter as a souvenir of first international mail between Victoria and Seattle, Washington. One handwritten page and envelope.

Air mail cover addressed to Mr. J. A. Rithet, Victoria, B.C., from William E. Boeing, October 15, 1920.

Photographic group portrait of Larsen air mail crews with a Junkers-Larsen JL-6 aircraft, circa 1920s. The people, including Harold E. Hartney, are numbered and identified in the caption. Hartney's middle initial is misprinted as "B" instead of…

Photograph of a Curtiss JN-4 Jenny aircraft, circa 1920s. The text "U.S. Mail" is painted on the fuselage.

Photograph of a Douglas M-4 Mailplane aircraft parked in a field, circa 1920s.

Photograph of two men shaking hands in front of a U.S. Mail Service De Havilland D.H.4 aircraft, circa 1920s-1930s.