<p><b>Description</b>: This is an image of a Curtis JN-4H "Jenny" airmail plane being positioned for takeoff for the first regularly scheduled airmail service. The airplane is taking off from the temporary airfield at Washington D.C.'s Polo Field, a small strip of grassy land between the Tidal Basin and Potomac River.
</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
<b>Collection</b>: U.S. Airmail Service
</p><p><b>Persistent URL</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&amp;cmd=1&amp;id=194255">arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&amp;cmd=1&amp;id=194255</a>
</p><p><b>Repository</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/">National Postal Museum</a>
</p>
<b>Accession number</b>: A.2006-3
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/25053835@N03">Smithsonian Institution</a> from United States
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