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nypl:
100 years ago today, on April 10, 1912, aviator George Mestach made the first airmail delivery in Louisiana, ferrying 32 pounds of mail from New Orleans to Baton Rouge in an hour and 31 minutes.
This postcard, in The NYPL’s Rare Books division, was one piece of mail delivered via that early route. It reads, “Hope this msh which I send up in the air for you will come down a reality. See postmark. F.”
The very first experimental airmail delivery in the United States took place on September 23, 1911, just seven months earlier. Earle L. Ovington flew from Garden City to Mineola, NY, about six miles away. The first regularly scheduled airmail service didn’t begin until May 15, 1918, when mail was flown from Washington DC to New York with a stop in Philadelphia.
"It’s called Letters in the Mail. Almost every week you’ll receive a letter, in the mail. Letter writers will include Dave Eggers, Marc Maron, Stephen Elliott, Janet Fitch, Nick Flynn, Margaret Cho, Cheryl Strayed, Wendy MacNaughton, Emily Gould, Tao Lin, and Jonathan Ames. Think of it as the letters you used to get from your creative friends, before this whole internet/email thing."
(via Home & Abroad » Get Involved)
“Home & Abroad is an installation piece for Come Up to My Room 2012 at the Gladstone Hotel! Be a part of this amazing tribute to the city of Toronto, contribute a postcard with your thoughts on the city we call home and we’ll make it a part of our piece!”
Home and Abroad is an artistic collaboration between two awesome and talented women: architect Carolyn Fearman and writer Robin Porter. It looks like a really cool project (and I am not just saying that because I’ve known them both since high school… yeah, that’s right - I’m bragging).
DIY Travel Journal. by Alex from Make, Do & Send
See here for instructions.
Downloads: journal cover, journal pages, envelope
(via simple blueprint)
(via fuckyeahbookarts)
Courtesy of Design*Sponge.
I am loving the black envelope with white ink. I need to update my stationary/writing repertoire. And get my hands on some vintage stamps…
