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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

Alan Lonsdale Patterson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2021-08-03-A
Overview Alan Lonsdale Patterson worked extensively in the field of aviation from the 1920s to the 1980s. Throughout his career he worked as a barnstormer, pilot and established multiple companies that facilitated the sale of aircraft and aeronautical equipment, predominately between companies based in the United States and China. The collection represents both his professional and personal life through correspondence, photographs, business records, clippings and audiovisual materials, as well as...
Dates: 1876-2021; Majority of material found within 1920-1981

Alex R. Polson Northwest Orient Airlines Collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1989-07-06-A
Contents of the Collection The Alex R. Polson Northwest Orient Airlines Collection is a small collection comprised of textual marketing materials from Northwest Airlines and Northwest Orient Airlines, collected between 1948-1956. Included are a souvenir Flight Kit, maps, postcards, and brochures. There are also timetables with fares for various routes, predominantly for service to Alaska, Hawaii, Japan, and China. Materials feature several aircraft that began commercial service in the late 1940s, including the Boeing...
Dates: 1948-1956

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

Denise Babcock Schmidt Pan American Airways Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2008-10-28
Contents of the Collection The Denise Babcock Schmidt Pan American Airways Flight Attendant Collection is comprised primarily of textual materials and some photographs documenting Schmidt's time as a Pan Am flight attendant from 1973-1985, with some materials dating in the 2000s. The collection contains two Pan Am Stewardess School diplomas with color photographic 8x10" class portraits and accompanying certificate holder, 1973 and 1977. In addition, there are twelve color 3x5" photographs which are...
Dates: 1973-2008

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

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

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

United Airlines Air Atlas (1962)

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1985-10-25-A
Contents of the Collection

The collection is comprised of a United Airlines "Air Atlas," July 1962 edition, featuring the airline's service routes on a map of the United States. The "atlas" also includes facts about the formation of landscapes that may be seen by passengers from the aircraft.

Dates: 1962 July

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Patterson, William A. (William Allan), 1899-1980 2
Scandinavian Airlines System 2
United States. Air Force 2
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Aero Industries Corporation 1
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AeroSun International Airlines 1
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Aeromech Airlines (1951-1983) 1
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Aeroperú (1973-1999) 1
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Airservices Company Ltd. 1
Airspur Helicopters Inc. 1
Airways of New Mexico Inc. 1
Alaska Star Airlines 1
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Alitalia (Airline) 1
Allegheny Airlines 1
Allied Engineering Corporation 1
Allied International Company 1
Altair Airlines 1
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American Airways (1930-1934) 1
American Central Airlines 1
American Eagle 1
American Export Airlines (1937-1945) 1
American Flyers Airline 1
American International Airways (1984-1997) 1
American Overseas Airlines (1945-1950) 1
Ansett Australia 1
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