Whirling Ruston, a French filly, is being led down the ramp backwards after arriving on the first flight from Europe
to land at Idlewild, July 9th, 1948. A few hours later, the same aircraft departed on the first flight from Idlewild to Europe.
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Photo courtesy of Capt. David Hill
Racehorse on a DC-4
Seaboard photo courtesy of Lois Farella
Racehorse on a DC-4
Seaboard photo courtesy of Michael Purm
Another racehorse transported on a DC-4
Baby chicks from Shenk Chicks in Harrisonburg, Va. being unloaded from a Seaboard DC-4 in unknown destination.
DC-4s did not have air-conditioning and carrying chicks without air-conditioning was not always successful.
Photo courtesy of David Ransted
Rhesus monkeys imported from India for research that led to the Salk polio vaccine. Shown here being loaded onto a DC‑4.
A baby elephant, a gift from the children of India to President Eisenhower, being loaded on a Seaboard DC-4 in Bombay, India, 1959.
Photo courtesy of Capt. Ed Mitchell
Elephants on a DC-4
In 1956, Seaboard flew this Andalusian donkey and baby elephant on a DC‑4 from London to New York.
The donkey was a gift from the Spanish government to David Eisenhower, the president's grandson.
The photo appeared in over 500 newspapers and magazines.
Cheetahs in a shipping cage
Lion in transit
Like the Cheetahs, it did not enjoy first-class accommodations.
Cows being loaded onto a DC-4
Another view of cows being loaded onto a DC-4
Cows loaded next to other freight on a DC-4
The recipients of the freight might have wondered about the odor.
Cow being unloaded from a DC-8-63CF, 1974
Photo courtesy of Capt. Ed Mitchell