navigation charts
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Maps designed and used primarily for plotting courses and traveling on water in a ship or other vessel or in an aircraft or spacecraft. It is sometimes used also for maps specifically designed and used for traveling with motor vehicles.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Leroy Hamilton Commercial Airlines Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1986-09-03
Contents of Collection
Collection includes a United Air Lines high altitude navigational chart dated December 8, 1966 and a Transcontinental and Western Air brochure advertising its coast-to-coast service, "The Lindbergh Line," with fares and route maps, circa 1930s-1940s.
Dates:
Circa 1930s-1940s; 1966 December 8
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:
1940s to 1980s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
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