Air mail postcard addressed to Adelaide Gosnell, circa 1911
Item Overview
- Title
- Air mail postcard addressed to Adelaide Gosnell, circa 1911
- Date Created
- September 29, 1911
- Date
- 1911-09-29
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- English
- Collection
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Notes
- Description
- One of United Kingdom's first air mail postcards, postmarked 1911, addressed to Los Angeles resident, Miss Adelaide Gosnell, 2107 Warner St., Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. On the left is an illustration of an airplane in the sky, above a landscape. The postcard has two Halfpenny postage stamps.
- Caption
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Postcard caption: A.D. Coronation 1911. FIRST U K AERIAL POST. By Sanction of H.M.P Postmaster General. / For Conveyance by AEROPLANE from LONDON to WINDSOR. No responsibility in respect of less, damage, or delay, is undertaken by the Postmaster General. Copyright D.L.P. Inv. / (Address only to be written here)
Text from negative sleeve: Air Mail Postcard
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Dimensions
- 10 x 12.5 cm.
- Medium
- b&w glass negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
glass plate negatives - Names
- Lee, Adelaide Gosnell, 1896-1986
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Air mail service--United States
Air mail service--England
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_b3690_G027
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0002nc42
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- License
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