Contents of the Collection The Esther (Hutchings) Hebrew Western Airlines Flight Attendant Collection consists of textual and visual materials gathered by Hebrew during her career as a stewardess for Western Airlines (WAL) in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The materials illuminate the work and life of flight attendants in the mid-twentieth century. The collection is organized in two series: Western Airlines career-related materials and other airlines. There are several files of textual materials related...

Content Description The David R. Hellyer Pan Am Clipper Club Collection is a small collection consisting of materials collected by Hellyer as a child traveling between Tacoma, Washington and Asia in the early 1950s. The materials demonstrate how air travel, especially aboard Pan Am Clippers, captured his imagination as a child. Included are drawings by Hellyer of airplanes, a photograph of his Kindergarten class in Tacoma which had a child's drawing of an airplane on view, and an air-travel themed...

Content Description The Frank C. Morris Pan Am Collection is a small collection consisting of visual materials that Morris acquired during his work as a political reporter for the Detroit Free Press in the 1950s. Morris traveled with and reported on the Dwight D. Eisenhower presidential campaign in 1952 and this is documented in the collection with a route map notating Eisenhower's air and rail travel. The original mailing tube for the map addressed to Morris with a...

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.