Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
Description
2 images. Long Beach -- Avalon Mail by Air, 30 June 1955. First bags of mail go aboard Avalon Air Transport Ambhibian [sic] etc... George J. McMillin (Long Beach Postmaster) Dick Probert (President Avalon Air Transport) Claud L. Moyes (District Superintendent Postal Department of Los Angeles) Herbert Wegman (Avalon Postmaster) Harmon K. Freund (Mail Carrier, Long Beach). Caption slip reads: "For Sunday South Bay Page. Photographer: Emery. Date: 1955-06-30. Reporter: Emery (caption only). Assignment: Long Beach-Avalon mail by air. 50/51: First bags of mail go aboard Avalon Air Transport amphibian at Long Beach Municipal Airport in ceremony watched by city and civic officials of Long Beach and Avalon (Thursday noon). L to R: George J. McMillin, Long Beach postmaster Dick Probert, president of Avalon Air Transport Claud L. Moyes, district supt Postal Dpt, Los Angeles Herbert Wegman, Avalon postmaster Harmon K. Freund, mail carrier Long Beach (this opened 1-year contract for flying all classes of mail between mainland & island)".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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