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Talk about in-flight entertainment! On some Pan American flights in the 1950s, inflight fashion shows were offered to traveling passengers. What a look! Image: Pan American World Airways, Pacific - Alaska Division, 1952. Gift of William E. Talbott. 2012.151.168
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