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In the mid-1950s, foreseeing a great potential market, luggage manufacturers secured rights to produce airline-branded bags in large numbers. Sold through mail-order catalogs and at airport stores, and sometimes given out to first-class passengers and as promotional items at travel and tour agencies, this new type of hand luggage, with its vivid graphics, became a chic and desirable status symbol that identified its user as a member of the new globe-trotting jet set. Browse through over three hundred airline bags on our collection website! https://bit.ly/3N6WuAB
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