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The resulting effect is a vibrant and imaginative urban landscape that allows visitors to experience the city’s unique and diverse culture through its architectural history.
#SFAC #publicart @SFAC
This tweet was posted on December 27, 2022.
An unusual object in our collection is a disposable obstetrical kit. Although a rare occurrence, babies are delivered onboard planes. This kit includes a disposable scalpel, a bulb aspirator, and a receiving blanket among other things needed to deliver a baby. #52objects
This tweet was posted on January 03, 2023.
Happy New Year’s Eve! It’s already 2023 in the Republic of Kiribati! From 1939, Pan American Airways used Canton Island, Kiribati, as a stop on its routes from California to Fiji and Auckland, New Zealand.
Do you have anything fun planned this evening to ring in the new year?
This tweet was posted on December 31, 2022.
RT @VirginAtlantic: Rest in peace Dame Vivienne Westwood. A true British icon and the visionary behind our iconic uniform design that we’ve…
This tweet was posted on December 29, 2022.
A sold-out performance of Italian composer Giacomo Puccini’s (1858–1924) Tosca was staged on opening night of the War Memorial Opera House on October 15, 1932. #SFOperaCentennial #Opera
This tweet was posted on January 06, 2023.
Asian themes were favored as sitting rooms. Moorish and Turkish décor, on the other hand, often transformed a corner nook, parlor, or smoking room. Certainly, a room set such as this one was intended to transport its homeowner into a fantastical realm.
#victorianpaperedwall
This tweet was posted on January 04, 2023.
Did you know that SFO Museum is an actively collecting institution? Our collection focuses on the history of commercial air transport with a regional emphasis on the West Coast and the Pacific Rim, as well as the history of San Francisco International Airport. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on January 09, 2023.
In Hudson’s “Horse of Another Color”, a flat, geometrical background is combined with representational imagery to create visual contradiction between the illusionistic spaces and the flat background surface. #RobertHudson #PublicArt #Painting #SFAC
This tweet was posted on January 06, 2023.
Robert Hudson (b. 1938), along with his childhood friend William T. Wiley, was a seminal figure in Bay Area Funk, a regional movement in the late 1950's-60's. Hudson has produced a large body of paintings and drawings during his distinguished career. #RobertHudson #PublicArt
This tweet was posted on January 06, 2023.
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disposable obstetrical kit; 1970s
SFO Museum
2014.097.001 a p
https://t.co/5F1I4hOKZX
This tweet was posted on January 03, 2023.
Kacper Kowalski is a photographer and aviator who has been observing and photographing landscapes from above for over twenty-five years. #photography #aerialphotography #KacperKowalski
This tweet was posted on January 11, 2023.
Eileen Reynolds Curtis was a San Francisco Bay Area studio potter who was known for hand-thrown ceramics with unique and distinctive glazes. By 1945, Reynolds had established a pottery studio on Russian Hill in SF and was producing ceramics full-time. #CaliforniaModernistWomen
This tweet was posted on January 13, 2023.
RT @NEDCCInfo: #ReadyOrNotCA recently visited the @SFOMuseum, which maintains a growing collection of 150,000 objects related to the histor…
This tweet was posted on January 13, 2023.
Reynolds worked with native materials & developed unique glazes. Her semi-translucent glazes accentuated the natural qualities of clay. Perhaps the most striking was “Pebble White,” a textured glaze that bubbled in the kiln & created lava-like effects.
#CaliforniaModernistWomen
This tweet was posted on January 13, 2023.
San Franciscan Lincoln Beachey (1887–1915) performs in his biplane over the Panama-Pacific Intl Expo grounds in 1913. He was the first to perform a loop-the-loop in the U.S. and his repertoire of heart-stopping stunts made him the leading pioneer of aerial acrobatics #52Objects
This tweet was posted on January 17, 2023.
The Gorham Manufacturing Company, along with Tiffany & Company, was a leading manufacturer of precious metals at the height of Japonisme in the late 19th century. #Japonisme #Japan #Design
This tweet was posted on January 18, 2023.
While the Concordes were flown at Mach 2 (over 1,300 mph) out over the Atlantic, Braniff could not exceed Mach 0.95 on the overland DFW–IAD leg. Service only lasted a year and a half and was canceled in June 1980. #Braniff #Concorde #avgeek
This tweet was posted on January 14, 2023.
While the Concordes were flown at Mach 2 (over 1,300 mph) out over the Atlantic, Braniff could not exceed Mach 0.95 on the overland DFW–IAD leg. Service only lasted a year and a half and was canceled in June 1980. #Braniff #Concorde #avgeek
This tweet was posted on January 13, 2023.
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3. model airplane: Braniff International, Concorde; 1970s
Gift of Thomas G. Dragges
1999.061.058 a b
This tweet was posted on January 14, 2023.
📸: glass negative: Panama-Pacific International Exposition; 1913
Gift of Edwin I. Power, Jr. and Linda L. Liscom
2010.282.066 a b
https://t.co/sbTdq1kBNy
#52Objects #LincolnBeachey #SFHistory
This tweet was posted on January 17, 2023.
#Onthisday in 1929, Panagra (Pan American-Grace Airways Inc.) was formed. As a joint venture between W. R. Grace & Co., a shipping and mining company founded in Peru, and Pan American Airways, each held half of the new airline’s stock. #Panagra #PanAm #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on January 25, 2023.
Because of the heat caused by friction of incoming air at Mach 2 speeds, which could reach 250 degrees Fahrenheit, titanium was used to produce the compressor drums and blades, except for the last four high-pressure stages, which were made of a nickel alloy.
#SSTFirstGeneration
This tweet was posted on January 19, 2023.
Designed by Louis Blériot and Raymond Saulnier, the Blériot XI monoplane took off on its maiden flight #onthisday in 1909. In 1911, Earle Lewis Ovington carried the first U.S. airmail in a Blériot XI. #avgeek #BlériotXI
This tweet was posted on January 23, 2023.
Each portrait in “To Survive on this Shore” by Jess T. Dugan and Vanessa Fabbre includes a powerful interview with each of the featured individual. #ToSurviveOnThisShore
This tweet was posted on January 20, 2023.
See “Japonisme: A Passion for Japan” on display, post-security, in Terminal 2 and online at: https://t.co/CsNirkCAiI
#Japonisme #Japan #Design #Silver
This tweet was posted on January 18, 2023.
The Concorde’s Rolls-Royce/SNECMA Olympus 593 engines were atypical for commercial airliners. Featuring a turbine-driven compressor that thrust heated, compressed air through a propelling nozzle, these engines were usually installed in military aircraft. #SSTFirstGeneration
This tweet was posted on January 19, 2023.
The Olympus 593 was developed jointly by Rolls-Royce of England and SNECMA of France. The engine featured low- and high-pressure compressors, which comprised seven stages each and were driven by a single-stage turbine. #SSTFirstGeneration
This tweet was posted on January 19, 2023.
“The activism keeps me young. It really does. But I love my age, and I love when I can mentor somebody else. I love it because – and I never thought I'd say this – my age gives me a perspective that youth denied me.” Alexis, 64, Chicago, IL, 2014 #ToSurviveOnThisShore
This tweet was posted on January 20, 2023.
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glass negative: Panama-Pacific International Exposition; 1915
Gift of Edwin I. Power, Jr. and Linda L. Liscom
2010.282.025 a b
https://t.co/ob897QBA48
This tweet was posted on January 23, 2023.
In one scene, two moons slowly travel across a large rising sun, and in another, a camera pans across a golden solarized wetland. #publicart #YorgoAlexopolus
This tweet was posted on January 27, 2023.
RT @BoeingAirplanes: Introducing the last 747! 👑✈️
Here is a look at how we put together the final #QueenOfTheSkies. https://t.co/ngkPWwCT…
This tweet was posted on January 31, 2023.
The last commercial Boeing 747 is scheduled to be delivered today to Atlas Air from the Boeing Everett Factory. Introduced 53 years ago, the Boeing 747 created a whole new category of airliner, the wide-body jet. Have you ever flown on a 747? #avgeek
This tweet was posted on January 31, 2023.
There are more than a few inexplicable objects in our museum collection but this tabletop model featuring an aircraft on top of a walrus is one of the more peculiar ones. From the late 1930s, would this novelty item look at home on your desk today?
#52Objects
This tweet was posted on January 30, 2023.
Yorgo Alexopoulos creates paintings, time-based media artworks, and installations. He often synchronizes multiple monitors or projections in a dynamic ensemble to create an ever-changing, immersive spectacle. #publicart #YorgoAlexopolus
This tweet was posted on January 27, 2023.
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poster: Hawaiian Airlines; 1974
Gift of Dennis A. Bennett
2010.273.004
https://t.co/nA1wetUioo
This tweet was posted on January 30, 2023.