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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
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Elrey B. Jeppesen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1996-11-26
Abstract

The Elrey B. Jeppesen Papers documents the career and personal life of aviator and aerial navigation pioneer Elrey B. Jeppesen. This collection is comprised of textual, visual, and audiovisual materials created and collected by EBJ and his wife and business partner, Nadine Audrey (Liscomb) Jeppesen. The documents date from 1843-1996, with the bulk of the material dating from 1940-1979.

Dates: 1843-1996 ; Majority of material found within 1940-1979
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Judy Evans Sowell United Airlines Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2008-11-19
Contents of the Collection The Judy Evans Sowell United Airlines Flight Attendant Collection is comprised of textual materials collected by Sowell during her 1965-1993 career with United Airlines (UAL) as a flight attendant. The collection includes assorted UAL materials, including airline maps, decals, menus, employee documentation, such as pay stubs and recognition letters; instructional materials for stewardesses (1965); and a June 23, 1990 letter from UAL celebrating Sowell's 25th anniversary with the...
Dates: 1965-1990
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

United Airlines Air Atlas (1961)

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1985-07-28-A
Contents of the Collection

The collection consists a United Air Lines "Air Atlas," June 1961 edition, that featured the airline's service routes over a map of the United States. Atlas also includes facts about the formation of the landscape that passengers may see from the aircraft.

Dates: 1961 June
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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Women in aeronautics 4
memorandums 4
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transportation timetables 3
Air mail service 2
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World War, 1939-1945 2
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advertisements 2
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military records 2
navigation charts 2
newsletters 2
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scrapbooks 2
16mm (photographic film size) 1
Aichi B7A Ryusei (Shooting Star) Grace (Navy Exp. 16-Shi Carrier Attack Bomber) 1
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Lockheed Model 10 Electra Family 1
Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
Martin (Glenn L.) PBM-5 Mariner (Model 162F) 1
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Mexico 1
Mitsubishi J2M Raiden (Thunderbolt) Jack Family 1
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Morocco 1
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Okinawa Island (Japan) 1
Pan American Airways Clipper 1
Petroleum -- Maps 1
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Northwest Airlines Corporation 3
Pan American World Airways, Inc 3
Trans World Airlines 3
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Patterson, William A. (William Allan), 1899-1980 2
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United States. Army Air Forces 2
United States. Navy 2
Western Airlines 2
Air Line Stewards and Stewardesses Association 1
Alaska Airlines 1
Aloha Airlines, Inc. 1
Association of Flight Attendants (U.S.) 1
Boeing Air Transport 1
Boeing Company 1
Bohrer, Walt 1
British Airways 1
British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines 1
Butler Aircraft Company 1
Butler National Corporation 1
Bō̜risat Kānbin Thai 1
China Airlines 1
China National Aviation Corporation 1
Couden, Elliott N. (1911-2004) 1
Denver International Airport 1
Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993 1
Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006 1
Frontier Airlines (1994-) 1
Fuchs, Alice S., 1917-2012 1
Hapag-Lloyd Flug 1
Hawaiian Airlines, Inc 1
Hebrew, Esther (Hutchings), 1922-2010 1
Jeppesen, Elrey B. (Elrey Borge), 1907-1996 1
Jeppesen, Nadine A. (Liscomb), 1914-1996 1
Khutut al-Jawwiyah al Tunisiyah 1
LeBoutillier, Oliver C. 1
Lear, William P. (William Powell), 1902-1978 1
Lewis, Alda Jane, 1923-2012 1
Lewis, Harold Turner "Slim" 1
Mexicana (Airline company) 1
Michaud, Desiree "Jerry" Clifford, 1924-1982 1
Michaud, Thelma Irene (McGraw), 1920-1996 1
Northwest Airlines, Inc. 1
OX-5 Aviation Pioneers (Organization) 1
Ox-5 Club of America 1
Pacific Air Transport 1
Quiet Birdmen 1
Rankin School of Flying 1
Rankin, John Gilbert "Tex", 1894-1947 1
Sandaas, Karen (Jones), 1945-2013 1
Scandinavian Airlines System 1
Servicio Aéreo de Honduras 1
Smith, Joan (Merriam), 1937-1965 1
Sowell, Judy Evans 1
Stenzel, Dorothy (Hester), 1910-1991 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
Trout, Evelyn, 1906-2003 1
Turkish Airlines 1
Turner, Roscoe, 1895-1970 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. Air Force 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 20th 1
Universal Air Lines Corporation 1
VARIG (Airline) 1
VASP (Airline) 1
ValuJet Airlines Inc 1
Vancouver Helicopters 1
Venezolana Internacional de Aviación 1
Verger, Peggy Eckert 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
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