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Although Alaska Airlines can trace its roots back through various incarnations to the early 1930s, it officially began operating as Alaska Airlines on June 6, 1944. By 1951, the company had expanded southward to include routes to Seattle, Washington. Have you ever flown on Alaska Airlines? Image: Alaska Airlines luggage label, c. 1951. Gift of Thomas G. Dragges. 2001.015.014
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