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#OnThisDay, the first female cabin crewmember, Ellen Church, worked her first flight for Boeing Air Transport(BAT). Hired by BAT at its San Francisco office in 1930, she pioneered the “stewardess” profession by selecting seven more women for hire. During the 1930s, stewardesses at many airlines were required to be trained nurses and unmarried, and in the 1940s, airlines sought “young, petite, and attractive” applicants. Their jobs included weighing passengers and luggage, loading and unloading bags, helping to fuel airplanes, and occasionally pushing them airplane into hangars. Image: United Air Lines, Ellen Church, first stewardess, 1930. Gift of United Airlines Archives. 1999.047.311 This image was posted on May 15, 2017.

This post mentions the following things involved with the SFO Museum collection:

Boeing (1916 to ..)
This company is from the United States
United Airlines. It is related to United Airlines (the company) .