Catherine Wingfield Flight Attendant Collection
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 Airlines cross-country flights, home movies, and other travel footage. While pilots and some other flight attendants appear in some scenes, passengers are not depicted in these films. The films range from 10 to 15 minutes in length.
Dates
- Creation: 1936-1940s
Creator
- Wingfield, Catherine (Person)
Language of Materials
All materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research and is accessible in the Dahlberg Research Center by appointment. The film in this collection may not be handled, but a digital surrogate is available on our The Museum of Flight Digital Collections. For more information contact us.
Conditions Governing Use
The Museum of Flight (TMOF) Archives is the owner of the physical materials in the archives and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from TMOF archives before any publication use. TMOF does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from copyright owners. Consult repository for more details.
Biogrpahical Note: Catherine Wingfield
Catherine Wingfield was a flight attendant for American Airlines during the late 1930s. No further information is known.
Extent
0.5 Cubic Feet (one file folder; 4 film reels)
Existence and Location of Copies
Materials from this collection have been digitized and are available at The Museum of Flight Digital Collections.
Subject
- American Airlines (Organization)
- Douglas (Organization)
- Pan American World Airways, Inc (Organization)
- United Airlines (Organization)
- Wingfield, Catherine (Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Boston (Mass.)
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Detroit (Mich.)
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- New York (N.Y.)
- Phoenix (Ariz.)
- Washington (D.C.)
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Catherine Wingfield Flight Attendant Collection
- Status
- Completed Level 2
- Author
- A. Matthews
- Date
- 2021
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Processing, cataloging, and digitization of the films in this collection was made possible by a Council on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR) "Recordings at Risk" grant.
- Edition statement
- 1st edition
Repository Details
Part of the The Museum of Flight Archives Repository
9404 East Marginal Way South
Seattle Washington 98108-4097
206-764-7874
curator@museumofflight.org