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Description: Airmail pilot E. Hamilton Lee poses in front of an airmail plane. Lee served as an airmail pilot for the Post Office Department from 1918 to 1927. After his airmail service ended, Lee flew for United Airlines, retiring from the company in 1949. At that time he had flown longer and farther than any other pilot alive.

Creator/Photographer: E.J. Pearson

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Culture: American

Geography: USA

Date: 1924

Collection: U.S. Airmail Service

Repository: National Postal Museum

Accession number: A.2006-16

Persistent URL: arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=194268

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