The caption attached to the photograph reads: "THE UNITED STATES MAIL VIA THE MODERN AIRLINER This is no doubt the greatest picture ever taken in the history of the Airplane. It shows how commercialism is now being introduced by Airplane in really and truly up-to-date fashion. This picture shows the Lawson Airliner No. 2 which was designed by Alfred W. Lawson, the inventor of the first airliner, for the carrying of the United States mail for the Post-Office Department. This Airliner is built to carry more than 6000 lbs. of mail at a time, and can fly from New York to Chicago during the night without making a stop. This picture will give the public a practical idea of the tremendous strides made by the United States Post-Office Department in carrying the mail thru the air during the past three years. When the Post-Office Department first started three years ago their airplanes only carried 100 lbs. of mail at a time, while this new modern leviathan of the air carries more than 6000 lbs. of mail at a time, or will carry an equal amount of mail in one load that it required sixty small airplanes to carry in the beginning of the Post-Office service. This ship is powered with three Liberty Motors aggregating 1200 H.P. and has a wing spread of 120 feet. The body of this ship is 65 feet long and contains the main cabin in which a 7 foot high man can walk up and down with the same comfort and ease as he does in a railroad car. There is a mail chute in the bottom of this airliner thru which the mail is put into and taken out of the ship and this mail can be transferred from this ship to a smaller ship while it is flying thru the air and without the necessity of making a landing for the taking on or the delivering of mail to the different cities enroute. The cabin is sufficiently spacious to permit the mail clerks to sort the mail while the airliner is in flight."