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Introduced in 1936, the same year as the Douglas DC-3, this United Air Lines sage green wool stewardess uniform was worn with a yellow linen blouse and included a pillbox hat complemented with a green and yellow flat bow.
This image was posted on December 15, 2023.
#airlinerchairs
“I identify as a polyamorous gay trans man, primarily with a bear bent.
This image was posted on December 12, 2023.
#jesstdugan #vanessafabbre #tosurviveonthisshore #trans #transgender #gendernonconforming
San Francisco International Airport’s International Terminal officially opened to the public on December 10, 2000.
This image was posted on December 11, 2023.
Join us for a public panel discussion and exhibition tour of “Unlocking an Archival Treasure: The Harold Bixby Collection” tomorrow, December 9, 2023, from 1:30 to 3:00, in the Louis A. Turpen Aviation Museum & Library in the International Terminal.
This image was posted on December 08, 2023.
#bixbycollection #panam #haroldbixby #avgeek
A prominent leader in advancing women’s suffrage, Clara Barck Welles represented the “new woman”—a term coined in 1894 to describe the newfound independence many women began to seek.
This image was posted on December 06, 2023.
#barckwellessilver #silver
The development of the Wright J-5 Whirlwind began in the early 1920s with the Lawrance Aero-Engine Corporation, a company founded in 1917 by Charles L. Lawrance (1882–1950).
This image was posted on December 05, 2023.
#enduranceengines #avgeek #aviationhistory
The last Pan American World Airways flight took off from Barbados to Miami, Florida, #onthisday in 1991.
This image was posted on December 04, 2023.
#52objects #panamerican #panam #paa #avgeek
The Concorde was the first and only successful supersonic airliner to sustain regularly scheduled service.
This image was posted on December 01, 2023.
Many of the assemblages in the Unknown Museum were conceived as conceptual art, inviting people to embark on their own unique “personal scavenger hunt.” When confronted with so many common objects from years past, visitors often asked curator, Mickey McGowan, to see a specific item, and then proceeded to search for it among a multitude of similar things.
This image was posted on November 30, 2023.
#unknownmuseum #mickeymcgowan #bayarea #bayareahistory
On November 29, 1935, the inaugural transpacific Pan American Airways airmail service landed in Manila from California carrying 110,865 letters.
This image was posted on November 29, 2023.
#52objects #chinaclipper #avgeek
Come join exhibition curator Samuel Scott, museum registrar Tomohiko Aono, and archivist Debbie Kahn for a unique, behind-the-scenes look at the remarkable Harold M. Bixby Collection that documents the fascinating interplay of Pan American Airways and the China National Aviation Corporation in the 1930s.
This image was posted on November 28, 2023.