David R. Hellyer Pan Am Clipper Club Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 2024-00-00-32

Content Description

The David R. Hellyer Pan Am Clipper Club Collection is a small collection consisting of materials collected by Hellyer as a child traveling between Tacoma, Washington and Asia in the early 1950s. The materials demonstrate how air travel, especially aboard Pan Am Clippers, captured his imagination as a child.

Included are drawings by Hellyer of airplanes, a photograph of his Kindergarten class in Tacoma which had a child's drawing of an airplane on view, and an air-travel themed coloring book that he used. The coloring book encompasses the history of aviation but primarily features Pan Am aircraft and also includes a page about the Aerocar. Two certificates, one from Pan American World Airways and one from Northwest Orient Airlines, document crossings of the International Date Line.

Additionally, there is a photographic postcard depicting Sea-Tac Airport as well as a first day of issue cover with a stamp documenting the first man on the Moon, postmarked July 20 and September 9, 1969.

Dates

Creation: 1951-1953, 1969

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.