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Featuring the Pan American Airways Martin M-130 China Clipper, this colorful postcard from circa 1935 is missing two distinctive Bay Area landmarks, for which construction was underway but not complete. Can you name them? #SFHistory #PanAm Pan American Airways, Martin M-130 China Clipper c. 1935 SFO Museum Collection Gift of the Captain John B. Russell Family 2012.149.0482
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