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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…

Born-digital video recording of an oral history with John Bowen Scarff and interviewer Jim Stott, recorded as part of The Museum of Flight Oral History Program, May 6, 2017.

Air mail pilot's certification card issued to Robert L. Simons by Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc., January 1, 1936.

Air mail first flight cover for AM 38, Phoenix, Arizona, 1938. The cover is addressed to Colonel Harold E. Hartney in New York, New York.

Air mail envelope commemorating the Albany Air Meet, October 1928. Addressed to Gordon C. Lindsay in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. Text from original exhibit label: "Airmail envelope commemorating the Albany Air Meet, 1928."

Air mail envelope commemorating the 15th anniversary of air mail service, May 15, 1933. Addressed to the National Cachet Publishing Service in Brooklyn, New York. Text from original exhibit label: "Airmail commemorating fifteen years of airmail…

Air mail envelope commemorating the first day of the U.S. Army Air Corps taking over air mail deliveries, February 19, 1934. Addressed to Cal. E. D. Adams in San Francisco, California. Text on envelope: "The Army flies the mail. First day cover."

Air mail envelope commemorating pilots who died while delivering the mail, May 15, 1934. Addressed to Harold B. Wright in Hutchinson, Kansas. Text on envelope: "In memorium. U.S. Army. Pilots who died flying the mail. Memorial Day, 1934. Sponsored by…

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.