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Title: First air parcel post delivered
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1948
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: Photograph has upper left corner missing.
Photograph caption dated September 3, 1948 reads, "Postmaster Paul Martin gives package to Mayor Paul Brown." A pack of gum was the first package to arrive in Burbank via the newly inaugurated air parcel post.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00114591
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d016_f2_i3
CARL0005314534
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/48655
Subject: Brown, Paul
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Postmasters--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Postal service--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)--Employees
Mayors--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Air mail service--United States
Parcel post--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Offices--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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