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Commercial Airlines Collection (Part 5, T-Z)

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-00-00-23-5
Abstract

The Commercial Airlines Collection is an artificial collection comprised of textual, visual, and audiovisual materials of commercial airlines from around the world, 1910s-2020s.

Dates: circa 1910s-2010s

Elliott N. Couden Airmail Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1983-11-18-A
Contents of the Collection The Elliott N. Couden Airmail Collection is a relatively small collection that pertains to the early days of airmail via Pacific Air Transport (PAT), United Air Lines (UAL), and Varney Air Lines (VAL). It includes textual and photographic materials, dating from 1929-1944. Textual materials include both original and photocopies of clippings related to airmail pilots of the 1930s-1940s, including some of their crashes and deaths; and airmail service, including news about routes....
Dates: 1926-1948

Ethyl Y. Dale Airman's World Annotated Book

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 1982-02-11-A
Content Description The Ethyl Y. Dale Airman's World Annotated Book is a small collection consisting of one book that Dale used as a travel diary from 1932-1969. The book is a copy of Airman's World published by William Morrow in New York in 1933. Dale recorded all the flights she took throughout the pages of the book. She noted in the page margins the origins and destinations of her flights, occasionally recorded the date, and had...
Dates: 1932-1969

Esther (Hutchings) Hebrew Western Airlines Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2021-12-10
Contents of the Collection The Esther (Hutchings) Hebrew Western Airlines Flight Attendant Collection consists of textual and visual materials gathered by Hebrew during her career as a stewardess for Western Airlines (WAL) in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The materials illuminate the work and life of flight attendants in the mid-twentieth century. The collection is organized in two series: Western Airlines career-related materials and other airlines. There are several files of textual materials related...
Dates: 1945-1951, undated

Alda Jane Lewis Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-03-19
Abstract

Alda Jane Lewis (1923-2012) was born in Ohio and worked as a United Airlines flight attendant. The collection contains photographs, manuscripts, reports, maps, personnel records, and brochures collected during her career.

Dates: 1939-1984

Karen (Jones) Sandaas United Airlines Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2021-11-01
Content Description The Karen (Jones) Sandaas United Airlines Flight Attendant Collection is a small collection consisting of brochures collected by Karen Sandaas during her time as a flight attendant for United Airlines from 1965-2003. The brochures are predominantly advertisements related to a career as a stewardess for United Airlines and the qualifications needed. One booklet titled "United Flight Blazer Look" illustrates the uniform pieces designed by Stan Herman. There is one clipping from 1938...
Dates: 1938, 1955, circa 1960s-1970s

Ken Schultz Commercial Airlines Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1991-06-03-B
Contents of the Collection

The Ken Schultz Commercial Airlines Collection consists of printed ephemera from Eastern Air Lines, Horizon Air, United Airlines, Pan Am, Era Aviation, and Heli L.A. Items are dated circa 1980s and include system timetables, decals, stationery, brochures, postcards, tickets, and city timetables for Anchorage, Kansas City, and Seattle/Tacoma. Also present is an employee handbook from Continental Airlines, dated 1988.

Dates: Circa 1980s

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,...
Dates: 1972-1976

James Sterling Commercial Airlines Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1992-01-21
Contents of the Collection The James Sterling Commercial Airlines Collection is comprised of commercial airline ephemera printed between 1930 and 1990, such as route maps, flight schedules, postcards, flight kits, decals, catalogs, brochures, air sickness bags and calendars. The materials were items provided to customers by various airlines, predominantly ones with international routes, including: Pan American World Airways, United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, TWA, Northwest Orient Airlines, Mexicana De Aviacion,...
Dates: circa 1940s to 1980s

Steve A. Stimpson Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: 1986-03-25
Abstract

Steve A. Stimpson was a manager for Boeing Air Transport in the 1920s-1930s. The collection contains one hundred and fifty-two (152) black-and-white photographs in an unbound photograph album documenting early United Airlines history.

Dates: circa 1920s-1930s

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photographic prints 8
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menus 4
transportation timetables 4
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boarding passes 3
clippings (information artifacts) 3
memorandums 3
postcards 3
Aeronautics, Commercial 2
Air mail service 2
Commuter aircraft 2
Douglas DC-3 Family 2
Flight attendants -- Labor unions 2
Los Angeles (Calif.) 2
Seattle (Wash.) 2
Uniforms 2
advertisements 2
baggage claim checks 2
business cards 2
press releases 2
slides (photographs) 2
stationery 2
16mm (photographic film size) 1
8mm (photographic film size) 1
Aircraft accidents 1
Airlines -- Food service 1
Airplanes 1
Boeing Model 100 1
Boeing Model 200 Monomail 1
Boeing Model 204A 1
Boeing Model 221A Monomail 1
Boeing Model 247 1
Boeing Model 377 Stratocruiser Family 1
Boeing Model 40 1
Boeing Model 727 Family 1
Boeing Model 80A 1
Boston (Mass.) 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
Detroit (Mich.) 1
Douglas DC-4 Family 1
Douglas DC-7 1
Douglas DC-7 Family 1
Flight crews 1
Ford 4-AT-A Tri-Motor 1
General Dynamics F-111 Family 1
Hawaii 1
Lockheed Model 10 Electra Family 1
Martin (Glenn L.) Model 202 (2-O-2) Family 1
McDonnell F-4 (F4H) Phantom II Family 1
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New York (N.Y.) 1
Pan American Airways Clipper 1
Parachuting 1
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Pony express 1
Portland (Or.) 1
Publicity photographs 1
Strikes and lockouts 1
TWA Skyliner 1
Tourism 1
Transportation -- Passenger traffic 1
Travel 1
Travel Air Model 4000 (Model 4) Family 1
Washington (D.C.) 1
Washington (State) 1
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articles 1
books 1
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coloring books 1
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correspondence 1
diplomas 1
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logs (records) 1
luggage tags 1
matchbooks 1
microfiche 1
navigation charts 1
newsletters 1
passenger lists 1
personnel records 1
phonograph records 1
photocopies 1
photograph albums 1
publications (documents) 1
safety cards 1
sheet music 1
signatures (names) 1
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Names
Northwest Airlines Corporation 6
Pan American World Airways, Inc 6
Western Airlines 5
Continental Airlines 3
Varney Air Lines 3
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Alaska Airlines 2
Eastern Air Lines 2
Northwest Airlines, Inc. 2
Pacific Air Transport 2
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport 2
Trans World Airlines 2
Air Line Stewards and Stewardesses Association 1
American Airlines 1
Boeing Air Transport 1
Boeing, William Edward, 1881-1956 1
British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines 1
Bō̜risat Kānbin Thai 1
Capital Airlines 1
Cascade Airways 1
China Airlines 1
China National Aviation Corporation 1
Church, Ellen, 1904-1965 1
Couden, Elliott N. (1911-2004) 1
Dale, Ethyl Y. 1
Douglas 1
Era Aviation 1
Frontier Airlines (1994-) 1
Hapag-Lloyd Flug 1
Hebrew, Esther (Hutchings), 1922-2010 1
Horizon Air 1
Hughes Airwest 1
Khutut al-Jawwiyah al Tunisiyah 1
Lewis, Alda Jane, 1923-2012 1
Martin Company 1
Mexicana (Airline company) 1
Mid-West Airlines, Inc 1
National Airlines 1
Pan American-Grace Airways 1
Patterson, William A. (William Allan), 1899-1980 1
Sandaas, Karen (Jones), 1945-2013 1
Scandinavian Airlines System 1
Schultz, Ken (Kenneth E.) 1
Servicio Aéreo de Honduras 1
Spraker, Barbara 1
Sterling, James B. 1
Stimpson, Steve A. 1
Tanner Air Livery 1
Tasman Empire Airways (1940-1965) 1
Texaco, Inc. 1
Texas International Airlines 1
Thompson Aeronautical Corporation 1
Time Air 1
TranStar Airlines 1
Trans Texas Airways (1947-1969) 1
Trans-Australia Airlines. (1946-1986) 1
Trans-Canada Airlines 1
TransBrasil (Airline) 1
Transamerica Airlines 1
Transamerican Airlines Corp. 1
Transcontinental Air Transport 1
Transport Aérien Transrégional 1
Transportes Aereos Centroamericanos 1
Transportes Aéreos Portugueses 1
Transwestern Airlines 1
Turkish Airlines 1
USAir (Firm) 1
Union Airways of New Zealand Limited 1
Union Aéromaritime de Transport 1
Union de transports aériens 1
United States Airways, Inc. 1
United States. Navy 1
Universal Air Lines Corporation 1
VARIG (Airline) 1
VASP (Airline) 1
ValuJet Airlines Inc 1
Vancouver Helicopters 1
Venezolana Internacional de Aviación 1
Virgin Atlantic Airways 1
Viscount Air Service 1
Ward Air 1
Wardair Canada Inc. 1
Wegg, John 1
West Coast Air 1
West Coast Air Transport 1
West Coast Airlines 1
West Isle Air 1
Western Air Express Corporation 1
Western Pacific Airlines 1
Whistler Air 1
Wien Alaska Airlines 1
Wilmington-Catalina Airlines 1
Wingfield, Catherine 1
Wisconsin Central Airlines 1
World Airways 1
Wright Airlines 1
Wyoming Air Service 1
Yute Air (1974-2000, 2004-2017) 1
Zambia Airways (1964-1994) 1
Zimmerly Air Transport 1
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