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Everyone can relate to the uncertainty of a new environment, but master glassblower Marvin Lipofsky reveled in its challenges! “It’s the challenge of going someplace where I don’t have full control over my environment…” This tweet was posted on June 13, 2022.
In the 1920s, aviation visionaries imagined how the nations of the Pacific Rim could be linked by a new mode of transportation: the aircraft. Lucrative and profitable airmail contracts were awarded by world governments. #Airmail #Australia #AvGeek This tweet was posted on June 14, 2022.
Our exhibition "Marvin Lipofsky: International Studio Glass" celebrates a founding member of the American studio glass movement. It’s on view pre-security in the International Terminal and online at: https://t.co/PbQQp2ZLG7 #studioglass #MarvinLipofsky This tweet was posted on June 13, 2022.
The Aviation Museum and Library is located pre-security in the International Terminal Side A and is open daily from 10am to 4:30pm. #AvGeek #AviationHistory This tweet was posted on June 10, 2022.
We’re hiring! Are you an experienced registrar looking for a fun, unique, and fast-paced workplace? Come join the only @AAMers accredited museum at an airport! To learn more & apply: https://t.co/ulb4LuV44g #museumjob This tweet was posted on June 14, 2022.
“…and where I’m trying to exercise some rationale…to deal with my work, trying to incorporate a feeling I get…sensing the uniqueness of the country or factory and working with people I don’t know. That’s the real challenge—the uncertainty—and I like it.” -Marvin Lipofsky, 1991 This tweet was posted on June 13, 2022.
#TammyRaeCarland conceived the “On Becoming” series out of a desire to re-create a lost archive of her family. She said, “I had wanted an image of me in the presence of my parents.” #Pride #Photography #PublicArt This tweet was posted on June 15, 2022.
#TammyRaeCarland’s presence is seen as she performs the roles of her mother, who was of mixed race, but tried to pass as white, and her Irish Catholic father, who was a closeted gay man. #Pride #Photography #PublicArt This tweet was posted on June 15, 2022.
By creating these images, #TammyRaeCarland produces a parallel between the camera’s ability to construct an imagined world and her parents’ constructed identities. She becomes her parents, who were never able to become their authentic selves. #Pride #Photography #PublicArt This tweet was posted on June 15, 2022.
Did you know our collections website has a recently acquired objects button? From a Hello Kitty airsickness bag (really!) to a Hughes Airwest beach towel, keep up with what we’re collecting and browse through almost 2,000 recently acquired objects: https://t.co/kGhUpnPDvL #AvGeek This tweet was posted on June 15, 2022.
Multi-disciplinary artist and filmmaker Amy K. Jenkins reveals the secret yearnings of a child for an alternate identity by tracing a decade of birthday wishes. https://t.co/avN03wlnDO #VideoArts #VideoArtsSFO #pride #wishes #LGBT https://t.co/hFNrlmA7o4 This tweet was posted on June 16, 2022.
Delta’s inaugural flight from Dallas, Texas, to Jackson, Mississippi, via Shreveport and Monroe, Louisiana, on a Travel Air S-6000-B airplane carried five passengers and one pilot. #Delta #AvGeek This tweet was posted on June 17, 2022.
From a crop-dusting operation to a global airline, Delta was founded in 1925 as Huff Daland Dusters, one of the first aerial crop-dusting companies, and incorporated as Delta Air Service in 1928, the company’s first passenger flight occurred #onthisday in 1929. This tweet was posted on June 17, 2022.
One of the earliest female French aviators, Mathilde Franck (1866–1956) was taught to fly by the Farman brothers, Henri (1874–1958) and Maurice (1877–1964), in early 1910. Soon after, she established a record distance flight of fourteen miles.#EarlyWomenAviators #AvGeek This tweet was posted on June 21, 2022.
RT @SFOMuseum: We’re hiring! Are you an experienced registrar looking for a fun, unique, and fast-paced workplace? Come join the only @AAMe… This tweet was posted on June 16, 2022.
📸1/2: promotional prints: Delta Air Lines, 50th Anniversary; 1979 Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2015.160.590 a y luggage label: Delta Air Lines; c. 1948 Gift of Thomas G. Dragges in memory of Robert May 2001.109.124 This tweet was posted on June 17, 2022.
Harvey Milk was a leader, a groundbreaking political luminary, and a figure in the LGBTQ rights movement. The first openly gay elected official in CA, Milk used his platform to encourage others to come out of the closet as a critical first step toward achieving their rights. This tweet was posted on June 22, 2022.
Milk’s powerful statement on Gay Freedom Day in 1978 featured a call for national action that would be answered with the National March on Washington for Lesbian & Gay Rights on Oct 14, 1979, drawing more than 100,000 citizens to the nation’s capital to demand their civil rights. This tweet was posted on June 22, 2022.
📸: Mathilde Franck (1866–1956) in a Farman biplane c. 1910 Collection of Library of Congress, Washington, DC LC-USZ62-55908 R2022.1401.004 This tweet was posted on June 21, 2022.
Founded in 1931 as Boston-Maine Airways, Northeast Airlines operated sporadically for a few months as a Pan American Airways carrier. In 1933, another Boston-Maine Airways was formed under contract with National Airways. #DefunctThursday This tweet was posted on June 23, 2022.
Happy #Pride Weekend! Let’s flashback to 2018, when we presented "A Legacy of Pride: Gilbert Baker and the 40th Anniversary of the #Rainbow Flag,” which featured one of the final creations from Baker, who sowed the first rainbow flag for SF Pride in 1978. https://t.co/WPVjvz0HKF This tweet was posted on June 24, 2022.
In the mid-1960s, a bright yellow livery was introduced, created by famed Industrial Designer Raymond Loewy. Nicknamed the yellowbirds, it was the airline's final livery. #DefunctThursday #NortheastAirlines #AvGeek #AviationHistory This tweet was posted on June 23, 2022.
Through airliner models, promotional items, meal service wares, cabin crew uniforms, and photographs, “Flying the Southern Cross Route” presents a legacy of Australian air service on a route that connects two diverse regions and both hemispheres. #FlyingSouthernCross This tweet was posted on June 24, 2022.
📸 2/2: postcard: Northeast Airlines, Douglas DC-9-31; c. 1970 Gift of the William Hough Collection 2008.055.494 model airplane: Northeast Airlines, Convair 990A; late 1960s Gift of John E. Zullo in memory of Angelo Zullo 2009.158.003 a b This tweet was posted on June 23, 2022.
Mary Fuller McChesney was a largely self-taught sculptor and art historian. After studying philosophy at the @UCBerkeley, she embarked on a more dexterous pursuit and apprenticed with potter William Bragdon at California Faience in Berkeley. #CaliforniaModernistWomen This tweet was posted on June 28, 2022.
Piña remains a distinct Philippine product, popular in the West as high-end linens, souvenirs, handbags, handkerchiefs, and other accessory items. #PineappletoPina #piña This tweet was posted on June 27, 2022.
RT @airandspace: On this day in 1911, stunt pilot Lincoln Beachey made a daring flight over Niagara Falls in his Curtiss D Headless Pusher… This tweet was posted on June 27, 2022.
See "From Pineapple to Piña: A Philippine Textile Treasure" on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/WWq06Yg2xJ #PineappletoPina #piña #pineapple #lace #fashion #design #Phillipines This tweet was posted on June 27, 2022.
During the WWII, she worked as a welder in the shipyards in Richmond, CA. By 1949, Mary lived in Point Richmond with her husband, Abstract Expressionist painter Robert McChesney, and made ceramic sculptures in a kiln that she constructed at their home. #CaliforniaModernistWomen This tweet was posted on June 28, 2022.
She was greatly inspired by Pre-Columbian sculpture when they moved to Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1951, to join a group of Bay Area and New York artists. #CaliforniaModernistWomen This tweet was posted on June 28, 2022.
Zimbabwean artists carve their sculptures from the country's indigenous stone and exhibits an array of hues. Some of this stone comes from the Great Dyke, a 2.5-billion-year-old linear geological feature of metal-bearing rock that spans the center of #Zimbabwe. #ZimbabweSculpture This tweet was posted on June 29, 2022.
A popular transfer-printed design in the Japonesque style was a pattern by Gildea & Walker named “Melbourne”. The eclectic, asymmetrical pattern came in several colors and incorporates a seascape, horizon line, sparrows, bamboo, blossoms, and an owl in the moonlight. #Japonisme This tweet was posted on June 30, 2022.
Many of the sculptures in this exhibition are made from locally sourced opal stone or springstone. Opal stone is a softer, milky-light-green or brownish serpentine with a fine, smooth texture & nearly translucent surface that may be speckled with other colors. #ZimbabweSculpture This tweet was posted on June 29, 2022.
See “Japonisme: A Passion for Japan” on display, post-security, in Terminal 2 and online at: https://t.co/CsNirkUbag #Japonisme #Japan #Design #transferware This tweet was posted on June 30, 2022.
Springstone, on the other hand, is one of the hardest serpentine stones used in carving. This dark stone also displays a high sheen when polished. #ZimbabweSculpture #Zimbabwe This tweet was posted on June 29, 2022.
📸 1/3: A group of men collect stones from a quarry 2004 Chiweshe, Zimbabwe Courtesy of Masvingo Sculptures R2021.1803.011 The Great Dyke, Zimbabwe Courtesy of @NASA This tweet was posted on June 29, 2022.