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Commercial Airlines Collection (Part 9, T-Z, Assorted)

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-00-00-23-9
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-2020s; Majority of material found within 1950s-1990s

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

Desiree "Jerry" Clifford Michaud and Thelma Irene McGraw Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2016-11-01
Abstract

Jerry Michaud (1924-1982) Michaud served in the United States Navy during World War II as a Naval pilot in the Pacific Theater. Thelma McGraw (1920-1996) She worked as a stewardess with United Airlines (UAL). The collection contains textual materials, black-and-white photographs, and ephemera associated with their 1942-1952 naval and commercial airline careers, respectively.

Dates: 1938-1980; Majority of material found within 1940s

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

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

Catherine Wingfield Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1988-06-01-A
Contents of the Collection The Catherine Wingfield Flight Attendant Collection is a small collection comprised of materials relating to Wingfield’s career as a flight attendant for American Airlines in the late 1930s. The collection includes one photographic portrait (a later reprint of a colorized photograph) of Wingfield in uniform; two logbooks from her routes as a flight attendant, dated 1936-1937 and 1939-1940; and four films. The privately shot films are from 1939 and the early 1940s and contain scenes of...
Dates: 1936-1940s

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Airlines 6
photographic prints 6
airline maps 5
brochures 4
printed ephemera 4
Air pilots 3
booklets 3
clippings (information artifacts) 3
decals 3
menus 3
Aeronautics, Commercial 2
Flight attendants -- Labor unions 2
Los Angeles (Calif.) 2
Travel 2
Uniforms 2
admission tickets 2
business cards 2
correspondence 2
luggage tags 2
memorandums 2
16mm (photographic film size) 1
Aichi B7A Ryusei (Shooting Star) Grace (Navy Exp. 16-Shi Carrier Attack Bomber) 1
Air mail service 1
Air pilots, Military 1
Airlines -- Food service 1
Airports 1
Azores 1
Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress 1
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Family (Model 345) 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 80A 1
Boston (Mass.) 1
California 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
Commuter aircraft 1
Consolidated PBY Catalina Family 1
Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina 1
Curtiss C-46 Commando Family 1
Detroit (Mich.) 1
Douglas DC-3 Family 1
Douglas DC-4 Family 1
Douglas R5D Skymaster Family 1
England 1
Ford 4-AT-A Tri-Motor 1
Guam 1
Hawaii 1
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) 1
Iwo Jima (Volcano Islands, Japan) 1
Japan 1
Kamakura-shi (Japan) 1
Korea 1
Korean War, 1950-1953 1
Kugisho MXY7 Model 22 Ohka (Cherry Blossom) Baka (Crazy) 1
Kugisho P1Y1 Model 11 Ginga (Milky Way), Frances 1
Martin (Glenn L.) PBM-5 Mariner (Model 162F) 1
Mitsubishi J2M Raiden (Thunderbolt) Jack Family 1
Morocco 1
New York (N.Y.) 1
Okinawa Island (Japan) 1
Parachuting 1
Phoenix (Ariz.) 1
Pony express 1
Publicity photographs 1
San Diego (Calif.) 1
San Francisco (Calif.) 1
Shanghai (China) 1
Strikes and lockouts 1
Tokyo (Japan) 1
Tourism 1
Transportation -- Passenger traffic 1
Travel Air Model 4000 (Model 4) Family 1
V-J Day, 1945 1
Washington (D.C.) 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi 1
advertisements 1
aerial photographs 1
baggage claim checks 1
boarding passes 1
certificates 1
cookbooks 1
diplomas 1
lithographs 1
logs (records) 1
magazines (periodicals) 1
manuals (instructional materials) 1
matchbooks 1
military records 1
negatives (photographs) 1
newsletters 1
personnel records 1
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Pan American World Airways, Inc. 3
Northwest Airlines, Inc. 2
Varney Air Lines 2
Western Airlines 2
Air Line Stewards and Stewardesses Association 1
Alaska Airlines 1
American Airlines 1
Boeing Air Transport 1
Boeing, William Edward, 1881-1956 1
Bō̜risat Kānbin Thai 1
Church, Ellen, 1904-1965 1
Continental Airlines 1
Douglas 1
Frontier Airlines (1994-) 1
Hebrew, Esther (Hutchings), 1922-2010 1
Khutut al-Jawwiyah al Tunisiyah 1
Lewis, Alda Jane, 1923-2012 1
Michaud, Desiree "Jerry" Clifford, 1924-1982 1
Michaud, Thelma Irene (McGraw), 1920-1996 1
Pacific Air Transport 1
Patterson, William A. (William Allan), 1899-1980 1
Sandaas, Karen (Jones), 1945-2013 1
Servicio Aéreo de Honduras 1
Stimpson, Steve A. 1
TABSO Bulgarian Air Transport 1
Tanner Air Livery 1
Tasman Empire Airways (1940-1965) 1
Texaco, Inc. 1
Texas International Airlines 1
Texas National Airlines 1
Thompson Aeronautical Corporation 1
Time Air 1
Tower Air, Inc 1
TranStar Airlines 1
Trans Air 1
Trans Arabian Air Transport 1
Trans Caribbean Airways (1952-1971) 1
Trans Texas Airways (1947-1969) 1
Trans World Airlines 1
Trans-Australia Airlines. (1946-1986) 1
Trans-Canada Airlines 1
Trans-Central Airlines 1
Trans-Colorado Airlines 1
Trans-Mo Airlines 1
TransBrasil (Airline) 1
Transaero 1
Transamerica Airlines 1
Transamerican Airlines Corp. 1
Transcontinental Air Transport 1
Transport Aérien Transrégional 1
Transportes Aereos Centroamericanos 1
Transportes Aéreos Portugueses 1
Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux 1
Transwestern Airlines 1
Trawel Fly 1
Trump Shuttle, Inc. 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. Army Air Forces 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 20th 1
United States. Navy 1
Universal Air Lines Corporation 1
VARIG (Airline) 1
VASP (Airline) 1
Vacation Airways 1
ValuJet Airlines Inc 1
Vancouver Helicopters 1
Venezolana Internacional de Aviación 1
Virgin America 1
Virgin Atlantic Airways 1
Viscount Air Service 1
Ward Air 1
Wardair Canada Inc. 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
Wiggins Airways 1
Wilmington-Catalina Airlines 1
Wingfield, Catherine 1
Wings Airways 1
Wings West Airlines 1
Wisconsin Central Airlines 1
Woodley Airways 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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