Francis States Pan Am Collection

Collection — Box: One

Identifier: 2012-10-12

Content Description

The Francis States Pan Am Collection is a collection of visual and textual materials collected by States during his career as Supervisor of Commisary/Food Service for Planes at Pan Am in the mid-to-late twentieth century.

The collection includes some employee documents; brochures and maps for Hawaii and Alaska; route maps; brochures for Clipper service; menus, including a series from 1958 with images of Hong Kong, Japan, Scotland, Hawaii, and England, an undated Clipper service Thanksgiving menu, and a menu from President Richard M. Nixon's visit to The People’s Republic of China, February 1972; assorted postcards showing destinations and aircraft; and some printed ephemera including a time selector card and a "Pierre Panda's Fabulous Flying Fun Kit" for children with various activities. In addition, there are ten photographs and one photomechanical print, primarily 8x10-inch black-and-white official Pan Am images, but also a few snapshots. A few depict Super Six Clippers, including a cockpit view and interior with passengers. Two images also show a Pan Am Hotel in Africa that States ran. A couple images depict food.

Dates

Creation: 1951-1994

Creator

States, Francis (Collector, 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. 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.

Extent

0.25 Cubic Feet (1 half-width legal size document box)

Additional Description

Separated Materials

The following items have been separated from the archival component of this collection and transferred to the Library:

PanAm newsletter, January 1973
Pan Am Clipper newsletter, January 1980, November 1982

The following items have been separated from the archival component of this collection and transferred to the Trade Literature Collection:

Report, Pan American World Airways Report to Employees 1957
Report, Progress Report Pacific-Alaska Division 1954
Report, Pan American World Airways Annual Report 1955
Report, Pan American World Airways, Wings Over the World, Annual Report for 1951
Report, Wings Over the World, Pan American World Airways Annual Report 1954
Booklet, 20 Years of Progress, History of the Pacific-Alaska Division, Pan American World Airways

The following items have been separated from the archival component of this collection and are kept in Objects storage: