<p><b>Description</b>: This is an image of Benjamin Lipsner (holding mailbag), Superintendent of the Airmail Service, and airmail pilot Max Miller (wearing flight gear). Miller is about to begin his pathfinding flight between New York and Chicago.
</p><p><b>Creator/Photographer</b>: Unidentified photographer
</p><p><b>Medium</b>: Black and white photographic print
</p><p><b>Culture</b>: American
</p><p><b>Geography</b>: USA
</p><p><b>Date</b>: 1918
</p><p><b>Collection</b>: U.S. Airmail Service
</p><p><b>Persistent URL</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?t=5&amp;id=1994&amp;q=A.2006-17">photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?t=5&amp;id=1994&amp;q...</a>
</p><p><b>Repository</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/">National Postal Museum</a>
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<b>Accession number</b>: A.2006-17
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/25053835@N03">Smithsonian Institution</a> from United States
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/2551040812/">Airmail Pilot Max Miller and Benjamin Lipsner</a>