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Pan American World Airways, Inc

 Organization

Historical Note

Pan American World Airways was established in 1927. More commonly known as Pan Am, the airline operated domestic and international flights. It ceased ooperations in late 1991 due to financial problems.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

P.J. Muller Collection of Pan Am Menus

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2008-04-24
Content Description The P.J. Muller Collection of Pan Am Menus is a small collection consisting of four Pan Am Special Business Class dinner menu cards with commemorative illustrations of historic flights of Pam Am Clippers on the covers. The menus were acquired between 1984-1985 aboard Pan Am 747 flights between JFK (New York) and Heathrow (London) airports. The historic flights depicted include a Sikorsky S-38 Amphibian piloted by Charles Lindbergh delivering air mail to the Canal Zone from Miami,...

Catherine Wingfield Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1988-06-01-A
Contents of the Collection The Catherine Wingfield Flight Attendant Collection is a small collection comprised of materials relating to Wingfield’s career as a flight attendant for American Airlines in the late 1930s. The collection includes one photographic portrait (a later reprint of a colorized photograph) of Wingfield in uniform; two logbooks from her routes as a flight attendant, dated 1936-1937 and 1939-1940; and four films. The privately shot films are from 1939 and the early 1940s and contain scenes of American...

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