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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 53 Collections and/or Records:

Richard Peterson Pan American World Airways Collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 1984-10-11-B
Contents of the Collection

This small collection contains a Pan American Airways flight packet souvenir given to passengers traveling to the South Pacific, circa 1956. Contents of packet include a drink menu, brochures with information for traveling in Manila, Guam, Wake Island, and Hong Kong, as well as postcards of fishermen in Guam and aerial views of Wake Island.

Dates: Circa 1956
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Virginia Randall TWA Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2008-09-04B
Contents of the Collection The Virginia Randall TWA Flight Attendant Collection is a small amount of materials relating to Randall's time as a Trans World Airways (TWA) flight attendant from 1953-1954. The materials were collected by Randall. The collection contains six (6) portraits of Randall in her TWA uniform. Two (2) of these are are black-and-white, four (4) have been colorized, all are 8x10" and all are digital reprints, not vintage photographs. The rest of the materials are textual and include a...
Dates: 1953-1954
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Russian Transpolar Flight Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-12-23
Abstract

The Russian Transpolar Flight Collection primarily documents the June 1937 transpolar flight by Russian aviators Valery Chkalov, Georgii Baidukov, and V. Belydakov with photographs, clippings, audio-visual materials, and various textual materials. It also features a small amount of material about the July 1937 transpolar flight by Russian aviators M. Gromov, Sergei Danilin, and Andrei Yumashev, as well as general Russia-related research materials.

Dates: 1937-2012
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Ken Schultz Commercial Airlines Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1991-06-03-B
Contents of the Collection

The Ken Schultz Commercial Airlines Collection consists of printed ephemera from Eastern Air Lines, Horizon Air, United Airlines, Pan Am, Era Aviation, and Heli L.A. Items are dated circa 1980s and include system timetables, decals, stationery, brochures, postcards, tickets, and city timetables for Anchorage, Kansas City, and Seattle/Tacoma. Also present is an employee handbook from Continental Airlines, dated 1988.

Dates: Circa 1980s
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Kenneth E. Schultz Western Airlines Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1995-06-28
Overview

Kenneth E. Schultz was a Douglas DC-6B aircraft flight engineer for Western Airlines from the 1950s to 1960s. This small collection is comprised of materials related to the Western Airlines Chapter of Flight Engineers’ International Association and Shultz’s labor disputes with Western Airlines while he was employed with the company as a flight engineer.

Dates: 1948-1989
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Robert Short Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1991-01-07
Abstract

Robert McCawley Short (1904-1932) was born in Steilacoom, Washington and worked in China as chief instructor at China's School for Military Air Tactics from 1931-1932. The collection contains licenses, financial documents, correspondence, photographs, ephemera, biographical materials, and clippings related to Short's brief time in China. Additionally, the collection has photographs, ephemera, and correspondence related to the identification and preservation of his memorial.

Dates: 1932-1987
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Francis States Pan American Airways Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2012-10-12
Content Description The Francis States Pan American Airways Collection is a collection of visual and textual materials collected by States during his career as Supervisor of Commisary/Food Service for Planes at Pan Am in the mid-to-late twentieth century. The collection includes some employee documents; brochures and maps for Hawaii and Alaska; route maps; brochures for Clipper service; menus, including a series from 1958 with images of Hong Kong, Japan, Scotland, Hawaii, and England, an undated...
Dates: 1951-1994
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

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