The Angela Gardner Trans World Airlines Flight Attendant Collection is comprised of textual and visual materials that relate Gardner's time as a flight attendant for Trans World Airlines (TWA) from 1962-1987. The bulk of the collection was gathered by Gardner in the course of her employment.

The collection contains employee-related documents including labor agreements, benefits and insurance booklets, pay information, and job descriptions. There is also a small amount of documentation relating to lawsuits against TWA for weight discrimination. There is also an assortment of TWA-related ephemera, such as "Welcome Aboard" Grow Ahead booklets for children, Royal Ambassador First Class luggage tag, and a multilingual booklet, "Cabin Announcements and In-Flight Translator." Additional ephemera includes several flight attendant themed blank holiday cards and a January 1970 edition of the UK magazine, 'Teen featuring a "super airline career issue."

There are two digital reproduction of photographic prints and a single photocopied page of five additional images (originals not in collection). One of the digital prints is a black-and-white group portrait of TWA flight attendants; the other is a hand-colored portrait of Angela Gardner in her TWA uniform. The five remaining color photocopied images feature Gardner and fellow airline personnel, as well as obscured views of a TWA aircraft. None of the images include identifying information, such as dates, names, or locations.

At the end of the collection is a handwritten receipt dated June 17, 1943 for a cigarette case and matchbox holder made by a prisoner-of-war and purchased by Gardner's father, William F. Hughes. It is stamped, though the stamp is faint and very difficult to read. The handwritten portion reads as follows: "Received from F/O Hughes the sum of seventeen dollars and [illegible] in payment of one cigarette case, one matchbox case made by a Prisoner of War. The proceeds of this sale have been placed to the credit of the P.O.W. concerned, less 10% for the Camp Welfare Fund. [signature illegible]-Commander." Gardner received the receipt from her father, Flight Lieutenant William F. Hughes, who was stationed in Nigeria with the RAF during World War II. The case and holder are kept in Objects storage (see Separated Materials).