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
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Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Commercial Airlines Collection (Part 5, T-Z)
Collection
Identifier: 2018-00-00-23-5
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-2010s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Elliott N. Couden Airmail Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1983-11-18-A
Contents of the Collection
The Elliott N. Couden Airmail Collection is a relatively small collection that pertains to the early days of airmail via Pacific Air Transport (PAT), United Air Lines (UAL), and Varney Air Lines (VAL). It includes textual and photographic materials, dating from 1929-1944. Textual materials include both original and photocopies of clippings related to airmail pilots of the 1930s-1940s, including some of their crashes and deaths; and airmail service, including news about routes....
Dates:
1926-1948
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Ethyl Y. Dale Airman's World Annotated Book
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 1982-02-11-A
Content Description
The Ethyl Y. Dale Airman's World Annotated Book is a small collection consisting of one book that Dale used as a travel diary from 1932-1969. The book is a copy of Airman's World published by William Morrow in New York in 1933. Dale recorded all the flights she took throughout the pages of the book. She noted in the page margins the origins and destinations of her flights, occasionally recorded the date, and had...
Dates:
1932-1969
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Esther (Hutchings) Hebrew Western Airlines Flight Attendant Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2021-12-10
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...
Dates:
1945-1951, undated
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Joseph D. Hutchinson United Airlines Slides and Film
Collection
Identifier: 2022-09-08
Content Description
The Joseph D. Hutchinson United Airlines Slides and Film is a collection of 232 color photographic slides and some 8mm film footage taken by Hutchinson documenting his time as a pilot for United Airlines (UAL) in the mid-twentieth century. The slides are arranged into two groups following Hutchinson's original arrangement: Airports and Aircraft, and People. Within each grouping, slides are organized chronologically.The first group of 118 slides are predominantly of airports where...
Dates:
circa 1938-1973
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Alda Jane Lewis Flight Attendant Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2012-03-19
Abstract
Alda Jane Lewis (1923-2012) was born in Ohio and worked as a United Airlines flight attendant. The collection contains photographs, manuscripts, reports, maps, personnel records, and brochures collected during her career.
Dates:
1939-1984
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Karen (Jones) Sandaas United Airlines Flight Attendant Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2021-11-01
Content Description
The Karen (Jones) Sandaas United Airlines Flight Attendant Collection is a small collection consisting of brochures collected by Karen Sandaas during her time as a flight attendant for United Airlines from 1965-2003. The brochures are predominantly advertisements related to a career as a stewardess for United Airlines and the qualifications needed. One booklet titled "United Flight Blazer Look" illustrates the uniform pieces designed by Stan Herman. There is one clipping from 1938...
Dates:
1938, 1955, circa 1960s-1970s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Ken Schultz Commercial Airlines Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1991-06-03-B
Contents of the Collection
The Ken Schultz Commercial Airlines Collection consists of printed ephemera from Eastern Air Lines, Horizon Air, United Airlines, Pan Am, Era Aviation, and Heli L.A. Items are dated circa 1980s and include system timetables, decals, stationery, brochures, postcards, tickets, and city timetables for Anchorage, Kansas City, and Seattle/Tacoma. Also present is an employee handbook from Continental Airlines, dated 1988.
Dates:
Circa 1980s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Barbara Spraker Sea-Tac Airport Slides
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2018-07-10
Contents of the Collection
The Barbara Spraker Sea-Tac Airport Slides collection is a small collection consisting of 44 photographic slides depicting scenes at at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) in the mid-1970s. The 35mm color slides were taken by Spraker during her work as a tour guide for the Port of Seattle at Sea-Tac airport. A little under half the images depict various U.S.-based airliners at gates and on the tarmac. Airlines represented in the collection includes Alaska Airlines,...
Dates:
1972-1976
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:
circa 1940s to 1980s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives