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Airports

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Non-preferred terms: Aerodromes; Air fields; Air parks; Air ports; Airdromes; Airfields; Airparks http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85002960

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

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

Kazuo Nomi Airport Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-04-10
Contents of the Collection The Kazuo Nomi Airport collection is primarily comprised of technical drawings for design, construction, and expansion of various airports, 1972-2002 (bulk dates 1972-1985). The materials were collected and used by Nomi, who was Assistant to the Administrative General Manager, Transportation Services for Japan Air Lines. The materials have been grouped by airport and are listed alphabetically by their anglicized name. Materials within each airport series are ordered chronologically. ...
Dates: 1972 to 2002 (bulk dates 1970s-1980s)
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Nordhoff and Dunnam Families World War I and Bellevue Airport Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1993-05-11
Abstract

Collection of photographs, scrapbooks, clippings, and assorted ephemera from the Nordhoff and Dunnam families, who served as pilots in World War I and World War II and later founded the Bellevue Airport.

Dates: 1910s to 1980s, 2014
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Linda Patterson Hughes Airwest Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2009-07-14
Contents of the Collection The Linda Patterson Hughes Airwest Flight Attendant Collection is a small collection of primarily textual materials collected and used by Linda Patterson during her flight attendant career from 1968-1981. The materials are from her service with Air West and Hughes Airwest and include certificates of excellence, a paystub, a May 1976 dedication ceremony program for the Hughes Airwest Boeing Model 727 "Spirit of Gamma," and a newspaper advertisement for Hughes Airwest's move to Seattle-Tacoma...
Dates: 1968-1981
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Robert L. Simons Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1998-05-05-B
Overview

Robert Lewis Simons was a military and commercial pilot in the mid-twentieth century. The Collection is comprised of materials relating to Simons’ career , including log books, military records, photographs, and films.

Dates: 1925-1972; Majority of material found within 1938-1948
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

John Wegg Commercial Airlines Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2014-09-12
Overview John Wegg is best known as the founder and editor-in-chief of Airliners and Airways magazines, as well as contributor to other publications and author of 12 books on aviation history, airlines, and aircraft manufacturers. The John Wegg Commercial Airlines Collection consists of about 2.7 cubic feet of material such as printed ephemera, photographs, documents, and other materials pertaining to the Wegg's aviation journalism...
Dates: 1929-2004; Majority of material found within circa 1950s-1990s
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Charles Zweigart Aviation Postcard Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2008-10-16
Contents of the Collection

The Charles Zweigart Aviation Postcard Collection is comprised of approximately 5,000 postcards collected by Zweigart from 1941 to the early 2000s. Most of the postcards are related to commercial aviation aircraft, but some feature airports. A small amount of postcards have been used but the bulk of them are pristine and have never been posted and have no personalization.

Dates: circa 1940-2000s
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Series II. Airports and Travel

 Series — Box 3, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

This series focuses on posters and lithographs that depict airports and hangars, as well as commemorative posters related to airports and travel.

Dates: circa 1939-2010
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives / Aviation Posters and Lithographs Collection

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