On May 15, 1918, the United States officially established airmail service between New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., under the direction of the Post Office Department, using army aircraft and pilots. Webb a bag of airmail letters for one of the first regularly scheduled airmail flights in the United States. ĭescription: Postmaster Patten is photographed handing Lt. Sheridan produced 13 cover illustrations for the Post between 19.
war effort as part of the committee of artists that also included Charles Dana Gibson (creator of the Gibson Girl) and James Montgomery Flagg (creator of the iconic Uncle Sam recruiting poster). During the First World War, he created patriotic posters in support of the U.S. He is credited with the idea of using posters to advertise college sports. Wisconsin-born illustrator John Emmet Sheridan (1877 - 1948) was well-known in his lifetime for his Post covers, his illustrations for Collier’s Weekly and Ladies Home Journal, and his commercial ads. It took two more years of dogged effort and experimentation, marred by dozens of crashes and 16 fatalities, for the service to fly the mail all the way across the country. and New York City, with a stop in Philadelphia. Post Office inaugurated regular airmail service, using Curtiss JN-4H biplanes to fly between Washington, D.C.
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