@SFOMuseum Instagram Posts This is SFO Museum's archive of the @SFOMuseum Instagram account. There are 5,159 posts and this is page 38 of 430.
Until World War II, Transcontinental and Western Air Inc (TWA) primarily operated domestic passenger and mail services in the United States.
This image was posted on December 08, 2022.
#defunctthursday #avgeek #twa #transworldairlines
#Onthisday in 1941, San Francisco Airport became an U.S. Army Air Corps training and staging facility.
This image was posted on December 07, 2022.
#avgeek #sfohistory
In the mid-1980s, Qantas introduced a new corporate look with a fresh livery for their aircraft, along with a new line of cabin and ground crew uniforms.
This image was posted on December 06, 2022.
#flyingsoutherncross #avgeek #qantas #uniform #crewlife
San Francisco-based artist Paul Madonna is known for blending poetic and poignant text with lush and inviting hand-drawn cityscapes.
This image was posted on December 06, 2022.
#paulmadonna #publicart #sanfrancisco
Formed in 1931 from the merger and acquisition of several airlines, United Air Lines grew and prospered as one of the leading U.S. coast-to-coast carriers during the ensuing decades.
This image was posted on December 05, 2022.
#airlinemealsets #avgeek #paxex
#Onthisday in 1919, Lee Mullican was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma.
This image was posted on December 02, 2022.
#publicart #leemullican #painting
Transcontinental and Western Air Inc (TWA) was founded in July 1930 through a merger of several airlines and was one of the first airlines to offer transcontinental service.
This image was posted on December 01, 2022.
#defunctthursday #avgeek #twa #transworldairways
“If you had told me when I moved to San Francisco in 1998, ‘Kenn, you are going to be part of a museum’s permanent aviation collection and will love it,’ I would have thought you were out of your mind.
This image was posted on November 30, 2022.
#nativeamericanhertiagemonth #behindthescenes #avgeek #museumlife
In his series, “Seeing in the Dark”, Tommy Keith explores the limits of human vision and underscores photography’s innate ability to reveal the unseen.
This image was posted on November 30, 2022.
#photography #photographer #tommykeith
Following San Francisco Opera’s debut on September 26, 1923, American soprano Bianca Saroya (1893–1981) and Italian tenor Beniamino Gigli (1890–1957) sang in Italian composer Umberto Giordano’s (1867–1948) 𝘈𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢 𝘊𝘩𝑒́𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘳.
This image was posted on November 29, 2022.
#sfoperacentennial #sfopera #opera
Created through a merger as Transcontinental & Western Air in 1930, TWA was renamed Trans World Airlines during the early postwar era as it expanded into international routes.
This image was posted on November 29, 2022.
#airlinemealsets #avgeek #paxex
Following the peak of their popularity in the West during the 1880s, Japanese designs continued to provide inspiration to the Art Nouveau movement at the turn of the twentieth century in Europe and the United States.
This image was posted on November 28, 2022.
#japonisme #japan #design