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EWR Turns 80
A History of Newark Liberty International Airport
Curated by James Lewis
Main Library
Exhibition on view April 7 – June 14, 2008
Second and Third Floor Galleries
Media:
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Heller Field was located in the North Ward and was in operation from December 1919 to May 1921 as a U.S. Mail airfield. Here, mail bags are dropped from wells in the forward part of the fuselage. From the Newark Evening News, December 8, 1919. |
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Thomas Alva Edison talks with Captain James Ray at Newark Airport. Photo by Drew B. Peters for the Sunday Call, 1930. |
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Passengers did not always have jetways to walk along to board planes. Here, passengers board an Eastern Airlines plane. 1951. |
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Newark Liberty International Airport had the first paved runway in the country. The runway was paved in 1928 for the opening of the airport. From The Port of New York Authority, 1928. |
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Newark Airport circa 1950s. |
Photos provided courtesy of The Newark Public Library.
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