Flight attendants
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Non-preferred terms: Air hostesses; Air stewardesses; Air stewards; Airline hostesses; Airline stewardesses; Airline stewards; Airlines--Flight attendants; Airlines--Hostesses; Airlines--Stewardesses; Airlines--Stewards; Hostesses, Airline; Stewardesses, Airline; Stewards, Airline
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Found in 75 Collections and/or Records:
Peggy L. (Eckert) Verger United Airlines Flight Attendant Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2008-07-30
Contents of the Collection
The Peggy L. (Eckert) Verger United Airlines Flight Attendant Collection is comprised of photographs and textual materials gathered by Verger during her 36-year flight attendant career with United Airlines (UAL), 1966-2003.The bulk of the collection is textual materials including Verger's UAL service record (1966-1977); financial records, such as paystubs and receipts; employee recognication letters; Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) labor agreements and membership cards; and...
Dates:
1965-2003
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Margaret Walker United Airlines Flight Attendant Collection
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2008-08-02-A
Contents of the Collection
The Margaret Walker United Airlines (UAL) Flight Attendant Collection is quite small being comprised of just four (4) items, likely collected by Walker during her time as a flight attendant for UAL, 1980-2001.
The collection contains a 1993 UAL Flight Attendant Appearance and Uniform Standards booklet, an April 1980 Union Update newsletter, a 2001 UAL Business Class dinner menu, and an undated UAL "Special Meals" program guide booklet.
Dates:
1980-2001
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Lorraine (Mulligan) Ward Flight Attendant Collection
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2020-03-27
Content Description
The Lorraine (Mulligan) Ward Flight Attendant Collection is a small collection of visual materials related Ward's service as a Chicago and Southern Air Lines stewardess (flight attendant) in the late 1940s. The collection is comprised of 11 photographic prints. Nine black-and-white snapshots depict scenes from a charter flight of the University of Mississippi football team, circa 1948. Team members are depicted disembarking from a Chicago and Southern Air Lines plane, posing in...
Dates:
circa 1948, 1990s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Jane (Klimek) White TWA Flight Attendant Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2014-05-21
Contents of the Collection
The Jane (Klimek) White TWA Flight Attendant Collection is a small collection that contains textual materials used by TWA flight attendant Jane Klimek, circa 1968-1969. Materials include a May 1968 notebook used by Klimek during her flight attendant training, monthly flight time records and bid sheets, sections from a flight service manual, and a list of hostess assignments for July 1969. Of interest is a booklet titled "Pride makes the difference when wearing your new TWA wardrobe" which...
Dates:
1968-1969
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
Peter M. Wood Boeing Family Film Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2004-07-28
Overview
William E. Boeing was an aviation pioneer who founded The Boeing Company in 1916. The Peter M. Wood Boeing Family Film Collection contains six films, primarily home movies of Boeing family members, from about 1930-1940.
Dates:
circa 1930s-1940s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Kimm, Joseph E. -- oral history interview, 2013 May 31
File
Interview Summary
Pilot Joseph E. Kimm is interviewed about his decade-spanning aviation career. He discusses his early experiences as a flight steward on Ford Trimotor aircraft, and his time as a copilot and pilot for Northwest Airways (later Northwest Airlines), spanning the 1930s to the 1970s. He also touches on his military service during World War II with Air Transport Command, U.S. Army Air Corps. Other topics discussed include his work building aircraft models, his experiences with various aircraft,...
Dates:
2013 May 31
Parietti, Peggy - 2018-02-09, 2018
Item
Summary
[From transcript] Peggy was an airline stewardess for United Airlines from August 1948 to September 1949, flying mainly in the unpressurized DC-3. She is a member of the Seattle Chapter of United Airlines Clipped Wings and the editor of their Tailspin Newsletter.Table of Contents: Early background and education -- Hired by United Airlines as stewardess -- Special uniforms and grooming -- Base of operations -- First flight -- What aircraft did you fly? -- Passenger dress in 1948...
Dates:
2018