Northwest Airlines Collection
Northwest Airlines Collection
The Northwest Airlines Collection consists primarily of company personnel, promotional, and flight service materials produced by Northwest Airlines from 1975 to 2007. The collection contains textual, audiovisual and visual materials. Formats include videocassettes, an audiocassette, slides, and photographs. In addition, there are an assortment of promotional materials, some of which are posters that picture company aircraft and early company logos. There are documents related to personnel guidelines and an assortment of flight service ephemera like boarding passes, comment cards, and information packets. The materials have been grouped together by format and organized into two main series.
- Conditions Governing Access
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This collection is open for research and is accessible in the Dahlberg Research Center by appointment. The videocassettes and audiocassette have not been reformatted but can be viewed onsite in the reading room. For more information contact us.
- Dates
- Creation: 1975-2007
- Extent
- 3 Cubic Feet (1 Legal size full-width document box, 1 records carton, 1 oversize box (20x24x3) and 1 oversize folder (47x35))
- Related Names
- KLM (Airline)
- Northwest Airlines Corporation
- Northwest Airlines, Inc.
- Republic Airlines
- Language
- English
Textual Materials, 1975-2007
- Dates
- Creation: 1975-2007
Company promotional materials -- posters, advertisements, decals and holiday cards, 2000-2002, undated (circa 1980s-2010s)
- Dates
- Creation: 2000-2002, undated (circa 1980s-2010s)
Flight service materials -- comment cards, advertisements, boarding passes, animal transportation information packet, boarding pass envelopes and baggage tag, extra miles booklet and certificate, 2000-2005, undated (circa 1990s-2000s)
- Dates
- Creation: 2000-2005, undated (circa 1990s-2000s)
Personnel materials -- forms, blank company notepads, guidelines, posters, company logos printed on foam core, binder, and employment promotional materials, 1975-2007, undated (circa 1970s-2000s)
- Dates
- Creation: 1975-2007, undated (circa 1970s-2000s)
Personnel materials -- Cardinal system procedures -- user guide and informational leaflets, undated (circa 1980s-2000s)
- Dates
- Creation: undated (circa 1980s-2000s)
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1970s-2010s
Audiovisual materials, 1992-2006
- Dates
- Creation: 1992-2006
- Dates
- Creation: 1992 April 02
- Extent
- 1 Videocassettes
- Dates
- Creation: 1992 April 03
- Extent
- 1 Videocassettes
- Dates
- Creation: 1994 February 1
- Extent
- 1 Videocassettes
"WorldKids" -- videocassette, 1998 May 01
- Dates
- Creation: 1998 May 01
- Extent
- 1 Videocassettes
- Dates
- Creation: 2000 February 21
"Flight Training Video - N7281, Captain Joe Kimm, Program no. 2002438" -- videocassette, 2002 September 11
- Dates
- Creation: 2002 September 11
- Extent
- 1 Videocassettes
- Dates
- Creation: 2006 June 14
- Extent
- 1 Videocassettes
- Dates
- Creation: undated (circa 1990s-2000s)
- Extent
- 1 Videocassettes
Visual materials, circa 1970s-2010s
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1970s-2010s
"Brief history" -- slides, photograph, and cassette tape, undated (circa 1970s-2010s)
- Dates
- Creation: undated (circa 1970s-2010s)
- Extent
- 1 Photographic Prints
- 78 Photographic Slides
- 1 Sound cassettes
"Trans-Pacific flight service" -- slides, undated (circa 1970s-1990s)
- Dates
- Creation: undated (circa 1970s-1990s)
- Extent
- 43 Photographic Slides
Citation
Cite Item
[Box number]. Northwest Airlines Collection. The Museum of Flight (Seattle, Wash.).
Cite Item Description
[Box number]. Northwest Airlines Collection. The Museum of Flight (Seattle, Wash.). https://archives.museumofflight.org/repositories/2/resources/643 Accessed January 02, 2025.