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Created to celebrate fifty years of scheduled transpacific air service, this color print of a watercolor painting by Oakland-born Dong Kingman depicts a Pan American China Clipper aircraft flying past the uncompleted Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Image: Pan American World Airways print, 1977. Gift of the Pan Am Historical Foundation. 2014.039.075 This image was posted on April 14, 2017.

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Pan American Airways. It is related to Pan American World Airways (the company) .