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postcards

 Subject

Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Scope Note: Cards on which a message may be written or printed for mailing without an envelope, usually at a lower rate than that for letters in envelopes.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Commercial Airlines Collection (Part 7, P-R)

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-00-00-23-7
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
Found in Notes:  shopping information; route maps; safety cards and brochures; stationery, air mail labels, and postcards
Found in Subjects:  photographic postcards

Guide to the Pan American Airways Postcards and Pacific Alaska Airways Photograph

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 004452]
Identifier: 1989-05-23
Contents of the Collection This small collection is comprised of three postcards for Pan American Airways and a photograph related to Pacific Alaska Airways. Of the postcards, two feature a Pan American Airways DC-6 with a text description on the reverse promoting the addition of "Super-6 Clippers" to the fleet, and the third depicts the "Sleeperette" lounge chair available on "President" flights. They are dated circa 1950s. The photograph depicts Pacific Alaska Airways personnel in front of a Lockheed 10 Electra,...
Dates: 1934, 1962
Found in Notes:  This small collection is comprised of three postcards for Pan American Airways and a photograph
Found in Subjects:  postcards
Found in Finding Aid Title:  Guide to the Pan American Airways Postcards and Pacific Alaska Airways Photograph

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