Barbara Spraker Sea-Tac Airport Slides

Collection — Folder: 1

Identifier: 2018-07-10

Contents of the Collection

The Barbara Spraker Sea-Tac Airport Slides collection is a small collection consisting of 44 photographic slides depicting scenes at at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) in the mid-1970s.

The 35mm color slides were taken by Spraker during her work as a tour guide for the Port of Seattle at Sea-Tac airport. A little under half the images depict various U.S.-based airliners at gates and on the tarmac. Airlines represented in the collection includes Alaska Airlines, Cascade Airways, Eastern Air Lines, Hughes Airwest, Northwest Orient Airlines, United Airlines, and Western Airlines. Six images are aerial views of the airport and runways. The remainder of the images show various scenes of airport operations, including ticketing counters; firetrucks and an emergency medical vehicle; cargo operations and baggage handling; and various areas of the airport facility.

Dates

Creation: 1972-1976

Creator

Spraker, Barbara (Person)

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.