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Title: Letter traveled the world
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photo shows the front side of an envelope of a letter that traveled around the world by air and arrived in Los Angeles today. It was mailed by Major E. Edgar Atkins, who paid postage of $4.86 on it, and was addressed to Warren Harding Atkins at 2832 Sunset Place. Carried by the Yankee Clipper and 10 other air lines, the letter is the first to circle the globe by air. Photo dated: July 29, 1939.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00067029
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 8616.
CARL0000071340
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24178
Subject: Envelopes (Stationery)
Air mail stamps
Postage stamps
Air mail service on postage stamps
Air mail service
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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