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Following a war time assignment in Alaska, Northwest used their experience in the territory to open transpacific service to Asia via Alaska in 1947. With this transpacific expansion, the company rebranded itself as Northwest Orient Airlines. #DefunctThursday #NorthwestOrient This tweet was posted on June 30, 2022.
The 1930s saw the company expand service westward from its Twin Cities base, and service to Seattle was flown by 1933. A year later, the airline was renamed Northwest Airlines and acquired the Lockheed 10-A Electra. #DefunctThursday #AvGeek #NorthwestOrient This tweet was posted on June 30, 2022.
“Green Map” by Ellen Harvey inverts the traditional idea of a map to highlight the region’s green space. A small gold circle indicates the location of the Grand Hyatt Hotel and @flysfo. Visitors are encouraged to explore the surrounding natural wonders. #publicart @SFAC This tweet was posted on July 05, 2022.
Australian filmmaker Michael Fletcher follows West Papuan fisherman Abdul Aziz as he captures small bait while forming a special bond with the whale sharks around his boat, teaching us how we can coexist peacefully with nature. https://t.co/Y0vVKofQTC #VideoArts #VideoArtsSFO https://t.co/UaDzIJSlLL This tweet was posted on July 07, 2022.
In 1911, Harriet Quimby became the first woman in the United States to earn a pilot’s license. She trained and earned her license at the Moisant Aviation School in New York. In 1912, she became the first woman to cross the English Channel in an airplane. #EarlyWomenAviators This tweet was posted on July 06, 2022.
🧵Ozark Air Lines was founded in 1943 in Springfield, Missouri, and although it service began in 1945, it was quickly halted as the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) had not issued them a license to operate. #DefunctThursday #Ozark #AvGeek This tweet was posted on July 07, 2022.
Historically known for their beautifully carved wooden headrests, the Shona also have a rich tradition of handcrafted basketry, pottery, instruments, tools, textiles, and jewelry. #ZimbabweSculpture #Zimbabwe #Shona This tweet was posted on October 12, 2022.
Named the Stratoliner for its ability to cruise near the stratosphere, the airliner had a circular cross-section, tear-drop-shaped fuselage to handle the stresses of pressurization. TWA touted its quietness, speed, and capability of flying above bad weather. #AvGeek #Stratoliner This tweet was posted on July 08, 2022.
The Boeing 307 Stratoliner was put into service #onthisday in 1940 by both Pan American and Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA). The #Stratoliner was the first commercial airliner to have a pressurized cabin. #AvGeek #AviationHistory This tweet was posted on July 08, 2022.
📸 3/3: photograph: Pan American Airways, Boeing 314, Auckland, New Zealand; c. 1940 Gift of Marion L. Yates in memory of John A. Yates, PAA April 1938 -1973 2006.014.003 This tweet was posted on October 12, 2022.
From a childhood tree growing up and out of a suitcase, to a row of houses and three teacups—the photographs exhibited represent the work of Notre Dame Belmont students who challenged themselves to think beyond the obvious. #studentart This tweet was posted on October 17, 2022.
See “Japonisme: A Passion for Japan” on display, post-security, in Terminal 2 and online at: https://t.co/CsNirkUbag #Japonisme #Japan #Design #silver This tweet was posted on October 13, 2022.
The high school students worked with clay for the first time to create the Luggage Project. Each student designed a piece of luggage with three meaningful objects to place inside. How would you show your love for your family without depicting one’s family? #studentart This tweet was posted on October 17, 2022.
In 1952, following a year living in Mexico, Mary Fuller McChesney and her husband, Abstract Expressionist painter, Robert McChesney, hand-built a small home and two studios on two acres atop Sonoma Mountain near Petaluma, California. #CaliforniaModernistWomen This tweet was posted on July 09, 2022.
Pan American Airways was awarded a lucrative airmail route contract from Key West, Florida to Havana, Cuba, in 1927. Unforeseen circumstances led them to hire outside pilot Cy Caldwell and his Fairchild FC-2 inaugurating Pan Am's first service #onthisday in 1927. #PanAm #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 19, 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 #Philippines This tweet was posted on October 19, 2022.
The blouse or camisa, featured bell-shaped sleeves or “angel wings,” and were often temporarily basted onto a camisa when worn, and then dismantled for washing, ironing, and flat storage. #PineappletoPina #piña This tweet was posted on October 19, 2022.
The light and airy ensemble, which was perfectly suited to the humid climate, consisted of a blouse or camisa, a long skirt or saya, and a pañuelo or square piece of cloth folded several times and placed over the shoulders. #PineappletoPina #piña This tweet was posted on October 19, 2022.
📸 2/2: photograph: TWA (Transcontinental & Western Air), Boeing 307 Stratoliner; 1946 Gift of Charles Loomis 2005.062.011 a This tweet was posted on July 08, 2022.
After the thorny strip is removed from each side, the pineapple leaf is laid upon a board and scraped to remove the pulp and reveal the fiber. Coarse white fibers called bastos are peeled away and used to make twine. #PineappletoPina #piña This tweet was posted on July 12, 2022.
Craftspeople gently wash the pineapple fibers under running water or in a stream or river to prevent tangles. Any remaining pulp is removed, and the fibers are then dried in the sun. Shorter or damaged fibers are carefully extracted from the bundle. #PineappletoPina #piña This tweet was posted on July 12, 2022.
In the 1860s, Minton & Company, a major English ceramic producer whose wares ranged from affordable transferware to hand-decorated porcelain and large-scale monumental design, acquired books of Japanese birds and flowers. This tweet was posted on July 11, 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 #Phillippines This tweet was posted on July 12, 2022.
See “Japonisme: A Passion for Japan” on display, post-security, in Terminal 2 and online at: https://t.co/CsNirkUbag #Japonisme #Japan #Design #Minton #ceramics This tweet was posted on July 11, 2022.
The manufacture of pineapple fibers into cloth in the Philippines is a centuries-old enterprise that remains virtually unchanged, despite efforts to mechanize the industry. #PineappletoPina #piña This tweet was posted on July 12, 2022.
“Bamboo & Fan” is one of several Minton patterns that use the same fan template as a frame for different bird motifs. #Japonisme #Japan #Design #Minton This tweet was posted on July 11, 2022.
"Waiting" is a photographic close-up of five figures involved in the familiar yet deeply symbolic drama of waiting in an airport for the return of loved ones. The photograph was translated into a digital image with each pixel represented by a one-inch mosaic tile. #PublicArt This tweet was posted on July 13, 2022.
Adverse publicity from an ill-planned ad campaign, along with stiff competition on the California corridor from other airlines ultimately led Pacific to seek out a merger with Bonanza Air Lines and West Coast Airlines to form Air West in 1968. #DefunctThursday #PacificAirlines This tweet was posted on July 14, 2022.
In 1958, the carrier rebranded itself as Pacific Air Lines, and updated its Navajo-inspired thunderbird logo to a bright and modern, red, white, and blue depiction. In 1965, Pacific began leasing two Boeing 727 jet airliners and placed orders for four more. #DefunctThursday This tweet was posted on July 14, 2022.
Pacific Air Lines began as a business endeavor to train pilots during World War II. Based in San Francisco, the airline began commercial commuter passenger operations as Southwest Airways in 1946. #DefunctThursday #PacificAirlines #AvGeek This tweet was posted on July 14, 2022.
In 1912, Bernetta Adams Miller became the fifth woman in the U.S. to earn a pilot’s license. She became the first woman aviator and the first person to demonstrate a monoplane to the U.S. government when she flew a Moisant/Bleriot for the U.S. Army in 1912. #EarlyWomenAviators This tweet was posted on July 15, 2022.
Last month, Kari Orvik visited the airport to give a short talk on her photographs displayed in “Geneva”, an ongoing photography series that offers a glimpse into San Francisco's Outer Mission neighborhood at the corner of Mission Street and Geneva Avenue. #Photography This tweet was posted on July 15, 2022.
The “Geneva” series is a personal inquiry & a poetic interpretation of place across multiple photographic formats. #KariOrvik uses 19th century wet plate collodion processes on metal & glass plates, traditional black & white & color film, as well as digital formats. #Photography This tweet was posted on July 15, 2022.
“What would you take with you if you had to leave home and could only take three things?” This was the question asked of beginning sculpture students at Notre Dame Belmont. Each student designed a piece of luggage with three meaningful objects to place inside. #studentart This tweet was posted on July 18, 2022.
📸: Bernetta Adams Miller (1884–1972) in a Moisant/Bleriot monoplane 1912 Harris & Ewing, Washington, DC Collection of Library of Congress, Washington, DC LC-DIG-hec-01546 R2022.1401.006 This tweet was posted on July 15, 2022.
From a childhood tree growing up and out of a suitcase, to a row of houses and three teacups—the photographs exhibited represent the work of Notre Dame Belmont students who challenged themselves to think beyond the obvious. #studentart #NotreDameBelmont This tweet was posted on July 18, 2022.