“Welcome Home Jimmy Wedell”

Alfred S. Lippman Collection of Louisiana Postal Aviation History

Alfred S. Lippman Collection of Louisiana Postal Aviation History / “Welcome Home Jimmy Wedell” /

Exhibit Sections

National Air Mail Week, May 15-21, 1938
United States Mail, New Orleans to Buenos Aires
“First Flight” of Airmail Service Between New Orleans and Atlanta
“First flight” of Airmail Service Between New Orleans and Houston
Mardi Gras Cancelled Account WAR with Japan
Dedication U.S. Naval Air Station, Houma, LA
Dedication of Menefee Airport
“First flight” of Southern Transcontinental Air Mail Route 33
New Orleans Carnival of the Air
Twentieth Anniversary of the First New Orleans Air Mail Flight
Passing of the U.S.S. Akron over New Orleans
First flight of Air Mail Route 29
“Welcome Home Jimmy Wedell”
“Dedicating Shushan Airport”
Pan-American Air Races, Shushan Airport
U.S.S Macon Passes North of New Orleans, Over Lake Pontchartrain
First Air Mail Flight from Shushan Airport
Last Trip of US Mail by Boat from Grand Isle to New Orleans
First Air Mail Flight by Robertson Airplane Service Co.
Wedell-Williams Air Serve Takes over Contract of Robertson Airplane Service Co.
Speed Flight Chicago to New Orleans by Chicago and Southern Airlines

“Welcome Home Jimmy Wedell, Holder of the World’s Record for Land Planes 306 Miles per Hour Made at Chicago, Illinois, September 4, 1933;” Postmarked New Orleans, September 9, 1933. Autographed by Wedell, Emil Thurman, and the New Orleans assistant postmaster [name illegible].

Exhibit Sections

National Air Mail Week, May 15-21, 1938
United States Mail, New Orleans to Buenos Aires
“First Flight” of Airmail Service Between New Orleans and Atlanta
“First flight” of Airmail Service Between New Orleans and Houston
Mardi Gras Cancelled Account WAR with Japan
Dedication U.S. Naval Air Station, Houma, LA
Dedication of Menefee Airport
“First flight” of Southern Transcontinental Air Mail Route 33
New Orleans Carnival of the Air
Twentieth Anniversary of the First New Orleans Air Mail Flight
Passing of the U.S.S. Akron over New Orleans
First flight of Air Mail Route 29
“Welcome Home Jimmy Wedell”
“Dedicating Shushan Airport”
Pan-American Air Races, Shushan Airport
U.S.S Macon Passes North of New Orleans, Over Lake Pontchartrain
First Air Mail Flight from Shushan Airport
Last Trip of US Mail by Boat from Grand Isle to New Orleans
First Air Mail Flight by Robertson Airplane Service Co.
Wedell-Williams Air Serve Takes over Contract of Robertson Airplane Service Co.
Speed Flight Chicago to New Orleans by Chicago and Southern Airlines