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Airlines

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Non-preferred term: Air carriers; Air lines; Air transportation industry; Airline industry; Aviation industry; Scheduled airlines http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85002650.html

Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:

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

James Sterling Braniff Interior Photograph Collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 1994-07-27
Contents of the Collection The James Sterling Braniff Interior Photograph Collection is a small collection comprised of seven (7) color photographs depicting Braniff bulkhead panels for a Boeing 747, circa 1970s. All of the photographs are 8x10" and include a handwritten identification number on the reverse. The photographer is unknown. The collection also includes the envelope the photographs were housed in and includes some handwritten notes on the back: "Braniff 747 Decorative Wall Panel - ASSY...
Dates: 1970s

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

Steve A. Stimpson Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: 1986-03-25
Abstract

Steve A. Stimpson was a manager for Boeing Air Transport in the 1920s-1930s. The collection contains one hundred and fifty-two (152) black-and-white photographs in an unbound photograph album documenting early United Airlines history.

Dates: circa 1920s-1930s

Gary Teeter Braniff Airways Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-11-30
Contents of the Collection The Gary Teeter Braniff Airways Collection is a small collection that primarily contains textual materials collected and used by Second Officer (Flight Engineer) Gary Teeter during his 1979-1980 employment with Braniff Airways. The bulk of the collection is employee records, including crew logs, an employee handbook, crew time and pay sheets and insurance booklets. There are also instrumentation training diagrams that depict "overhead panel," "pilots' instrument panel - left, right, center,"...
Dates: 1976-1984

United Air Lines Hawaiian Mainliner Passenger List

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2017-00-00-4
Content Description

The United Air Lines Hawaiian Mainliner Passenger List is a small collection consisting of a single item: a passenger list for United Air Lines' inaugural flight of the Hawaiian Mainliner Stratocruiser dated January 15, 1950. There are 54 passengers listed as well as the Cpatain R.L. Wagner, Stewardesses Phyllis Chase and Hazle Spencer and Steward CLement Keliikipi.

Dates: 1950 January 15

Virginia Wagner Commercial Airlines Collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 1991-02-20
Contents of the Collection

This small collection is comprised of brochures, boarding passes, promotions, and motion sickness bags collected from Northwest Airlines and United Airlines flights between 1969 and 1991.

Dates: 1969-1991

John Wegg Commercial Airlines Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2014-09-12
Overview John Wegg is best known as the founder and editor-in-chief of Airliners and Airways magazines, as well as contributor to other publications and author of 12 books on aviation history, airlines, and aircraft manufacturers. The John Wegg Commercial Airlines Collection consists of about 2.7 cubic feet of material such as printed ephemera, photographs, documents, and other materials pertaining to the Wegg's aviation journalism...
Dates: 1929-2004; Majority of material found within circa 1950s-1990s

Bruce Whitman Aviation Art Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2021-04-16-A
Overview

The Bruce Whitman Aviation Art Collection is a collection of artwork including a drawing, posters, lithographs, photographs, and advertisements primarily related to American military aviation from about 1917 to the early 1950s.

Dates: circa 1917-1953

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

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