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Cachet: National Airmail Week, First Flight
Envelope, 4 x 9.5 in. with 6 cent air mail stamp. Addressee is Jeanette Lucas 277 Salem Street Lawrence, Mass.Postmarked Lawrence, Mass. May 19, 1938. Envelope has red, white blue trim on white paper.
Cachet reads: National Airmail Week May 15-21, 1938 First Flight May 19, 1938 Lawrence, Mass. The Friendliest City in the United States Weaves the Worlds Worsteds. Cachet sponsored by the Lawrence Philatelic Society. Cachet image includes image of bridge and mills and smokestacks in Lawrence.
Letter, 6.25 x 10 in, handwritten in pencil on ivory paper. Reads:
May 19, 1938. In memory of the first air mail that was ever sent off from Lawrence. It took off from the north andover air port(sic). After taken to Boston and back again with the first Lawrence air mail stamp on it. That made me very proud of Lawrence, Mass. The Friendlyest(sic) city in the united states(sic). And I hope I will keep this letter all my life. Jeanette Lucas 11 years old. In the bottom left corner is a hand drawn picture of a plane taking off.
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