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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 11 Collections and/or Records:

Commercial Airlines Collection (Part 9, T-Z, Assorted)

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-00-00-23-9
Abstract

The Commercial Airlines Collection is an artificial collection comprised of textual, visual, and audiovisual materials of commercial airlines from around the world, 1910s-2020s.

Dates: circa 1910s-2020s

Angela J. (Hughes) Gardner Trans World Airlines Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-04-27
Contents of the Collection The Angela J. (Hughes) Gardner Trans World Airlines Flight Attendant Collection is comprised of textual, visual, and audiovisual materials that relate to Gardner's time as a flight attendant for Trans World Airlines (TWA) from 1962-1987. The bulk of the collection was gathered by Gardner during her employment. Materials have been divided into four series and are arranged chronologically within each series, unless otherwise noted. The first series, Flight...
Dates: 1943, 1961-2001

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

Arlene E. Johnsen Trans World Airlines Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-08-05
Contents of the Collection The Arlene E. Johnsen Trans World Airlines Collection consists of textual materials collected by Arlene E. Johnson during her 36-year career as a flight attendant for Trans World Airlines (TWA), from 1960-1996. It also includes a small amount of materials related to the crash that claimed her life, collected by her twin sister, Marlene. Original order has been maintained and the collection is arranged into two series: Series I: Arlene Johnsen TWA materials and Series II: TWA Flight 800...
Dates: 1961-2003

Kent Kistler Commercial Airlines collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 1985-09-23
Contents of the Collection

The collection is comprised of three flight system timetables printed between 1984-1985, produced by the following airlines: Fort Worth Airlines, Midwest Express Airlines, and TWA.

Dates: 1984-1985

Nancy and Klaus Meyn Trans World Airlines Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1990-09-24-A
Contents of the Collection This small collection is comprised of Trans World Airlines (TWA) stationery and a magazine advertisement, circa 1950s-1960s. The stationery includes four notecards with small color lithographs of TWA promotional posters featuring motifs representing Philadelphia, Hawaii, and San Francisco, as well as one featuring the Boeing 707 as the "World's Fastest Jetliner." Letterhead on TWA stationery features company images and a route map. Magazine advertisement promotes winter travel on TWA...
Dates: Circa 1950-1960s

Robert F. Patterson Pilot Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2024-10-28
Contents of the Collection The Robert F. Patterson Pilot Collection consists of textual and visual materials primarily relating to the career of Trans World Airlines (TWA) pilot Robert F. Patterson, 1965-1982. The bulk of the collection is textual materials and includes TWA correspondence, memos, and bulletins. It also includes his 1977 pilot license, medical certificates, flight condition reports, customs forms, TWA employee benefit materials, a notebook, and reference materials issued by TWA. There are...
Dates: 1953-1982; Majority of material found within 1965-1982

Robert L. Simons Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1998-05-05-B
Overview

Robert Lewis Simons was a military and commercial pilot in the mid-twentieth century. The Collection is comprised of materials relating to Simons’ career , including log books, military records, photographs, and films.

Dates: 1925-1972; Majority of material found within 1938-1948

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

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

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