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“Sanctuary/Sanctuario” by Juana Alicia & Emmanuel C. Montoya is a family portrait of the Bay Area, a place rich with many different cultures. This image was posted on April 14, 2016.

Pan American World Airways flight attendants were viewed as chic, high-fashion icons of jet-age air travel and were featured in promotions for consumer products and luxury travel abroad. This image was posted on April 13, 2016.

The desk set shown here is unusually rare; instead of portraying a woman, this bronze and marble inkwell depicts a sinuous Poseidon emerging from waves and a male and female pair of candlesticks. This image was posted on April 13, 2016.

Leather is one of the oldest materials used by man and has long been a valued material in the production of handbags. This image was posted on April 12, 2016. #essentialpurses

John Martin creates drawings from his memories of time spent with his family on their Arkansas farm. This image was posted on April 11, 2016.

Have you ever wondered what a ticket looked like from the early age of commercial aviation? This image was posted on April 08, 2016.

During the 1940s, United Air Lines constructed a large West Coast Maintenance Base at San Francisco Airport, along with this beautiful office building. This image was posted on April 07, 2016.

Have you ever wondered how they installed seating in an aircraft? This image was posted on April 07, 2016.

Happy 90th Birthday United Airlines! This image was posted on April 06, 2016.

Pancake Palace used to be a restaurant in the old International Terminal (now Terminal 2) at San Francisco International Airport. This image was posted on April 04, 2016.

Thirty-five years ago, photographer and educator Janet Delaney created the photography project, South of Market, about San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood. This image was posted on April 03, 2016.

Photographer Leo vanMunching has been creating a photographic history of the people, places, and architecture of San Francisco since the 1990s. This image was posted on April 02, 2016.

Spring is finally here, and we would love to be on a warm California beach. This image was posted on April 01, 2016.

Discoveries of ancient Roman glass inspired late nineteenth-century artists to produce similarly lustrous glass. This image was posted on March 31, 2016.

Commercial aviation grew rapidly in the 1930s, and male stewards and female stewardesses were a significant part of many airline’s passenger services. This image was posted on March 30, 2016.

This menu produced by Pan American World Airways features a world map illustration by Jacques Liozu. This image was posted on March 30, 2016.

After three years of storyboarding and re-storyboarding, capturing the characters through the voices of actors seems like it should be a straightforward venture—actors come to the studio, read their lines, and go home. This image was posted on March 29, 2016.

“Pond Farm is not a ‘school;’ it is actually a way of life, and I believe that the attraction of our session is not only that the students really learn their craft, but more than that, they also learn to concentrate and to find themselves.” Marguerite Wildenhain This image was posted on March 28, 2016. #womenshistorymonth #pondfarm

Learn about Bay Area Coast Guard history in our photography exhibition, “United States Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco: Honoring the Guardians of the Golden Gate 75th”, located pre-security, in the Aviation Museum and Library in the International Terminal. This image was posted on March 26, 2016.

Last week our newest exhibition, “Celebrating a Vision: #ArtAndDisability" opened, post-security, in Terminal 3. This image was posted on March 25, 2016.

Pacific Air Transport (PAT) was founded in 1926 by Vern C. Gorst, a transportation-minded entrepreneur with ties to the Pacific Northwest and California. This image was posted on March 24, 2016.

The field of aeronautical engineering led to some of the most profound technological advancements of the 20th century. This image was posted on March 19, 2016.

Stanley H. Page, a mechanical engineer, early aviator, and photographer, took aerial black-and-white photographs of San Francisco in the 1920s. This image was posted on March 18, 2016.

This 1937 article from Life magazine entitled “To Fly Transport Plane – You operate 145 instruments,” describes the instrument panel of a DC-3, and reports that, “The pilot of a modern transport airplane flies by instruments. This image was posted on March 18, 2016.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! This image was posted on March 17, 2016.

On multi-stop journeys, airlines would pass out seat occupied cards to passengers in case they wished to temporarily disembark the aircraft at an airport along the way. This image was posted on March 17, 2016.

United Air Lines stewardesses stand in formation to receive their wings from Don G. Maggerell, Vice-President, Passenger Service, in front of a Douglas DC-3 airliner. This image was posted on March 16, 2016.

#Onthisday in 1927 the City and County of San Francisco signed a lease with the Mills Estate for 150 acres to use as an airport. This image was posted on March 15, 2016.

Art Nouveau graphic artists portrayed women as enchanting, otherworldly maidens and their elaborate portrayal of female tresses helped distinguish the design style. This image was posted on March 14, 2016. #artnouveausfo

Our collection features over one thousand safety information cards. This image was posted on March 13, 2016.

One of the earliest luggage labels we have in our collection is one that was issued by Boeing Air Transport featuring a Boeing 80 airliner from circa 1928. This image was posted on March 12, 2016.

The Boeing 707, introduced by Pan American World Airways in 1958, was the largest passenger airplane in operation. This image was posted on March 11, 2016.

During the first half of the twentieth century, petit point and tapestry purses were a sought-after European import. This image was posted on March 11, 2016.

Each details of airline uniforms are carefully considered, sometimes even down to earrings. This image was posted on March 10, 2016.

The Pan American Airways Marine Air Terminal on Dinner Key in the Coconut Grove section of Miami, Florida was considered a milestone of design in commercial aviation history when it opened in 1934. This image was posted on March 09, 2016.