airmail flight cover: Interstate Airlines, Inc., CAM-30, Chicago - Atlanta route, Joe Hammer

Date:07/06/1930
Medium:Paper, ink, adhesive
Credit Line: Collection of SFO Museum
Accession Number:1999.023.003 a b
Dimensions:4 x 6 1/2 inches (10.2 x 16.5 cm)
Collection:Aviation Archive
Category:Philately
Subcategory:Airmail Flight Cover
airline: Interstate Airlines
company: Interstate Airlines (USA)
Description

a. Airmail flight cover honoring Pilot Joe Hammer, CAM-30, Chicago - Atlanta route; purple cachet with text; handwritten in pencil below cachet: “Joe Hammer Week”; postmarked July 6, 1930 in Nashville, Tennessee with wavy cancellation mark over one 4-cent and two 1/2-cent stamps; envelope with border of red and blue tailwheel-type aircraft. b. Insert: biography with photographic image of Pilot Joe Hammer, night pilot for air mail for Interstate Airlines on the Chicago - Evansville - St. Louis route.

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