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Herter Brothers’ holistic approach included designs for furniture, wall and ceiling decoration, and floor treatments. One wallpaper featured a design of peacock feathers; another fill paper and frieze exhibited floral and animal motifs on a dark background. #VictorianPaperedWall This tweet was posted on May 25, 2022.

Student animators Arlene Bongco and Angeline Vu from San Jose State University illustrate familial love between a seamstress and her son, who peeks his head into her sewing room, hopeful for story time. https://t.co/hxgF894fe6 #VideoArts #VideoArtsSFO #AAPIHM #SJSU @SJSU https://t.co/f3kbJyyGv6 This tweet was posted on May 26, 2022.

The large twin engine plane had a crew of two and could seat ten passengers and their luggage. It had a cruising speed of 110 miles per hour and a maximum speed of 124 miles per hour. The S-38 amphibian could land or takeoff from the water as well as the land. #AvGeek #Sikorsky This tweet was posted on May 25, 2022.

NEW BLOG ALERT: World-famous aviator #KatherineStinson, the 4th woman to receive a pilot’s certification in the U.S., visited SF for a public flying exhibition at San Bruno’s Tanforan Race Track in 1917. Read about her visit and aerial feats here: https://t.co/kZmJ9zImj9 #avgeek This tweet was posted on May 31, 2022.

Some of the final objects to be reinstalled are model aircraft suspended from the ceiling. Our preparators took great care in re-hanging models of the Pan Am Clipper (a Sikorsky S-42) and the China Clipper (a Martin M-130). #AvGeek #BehindTheScenes #SneakPeek This tweet was posted on May 27, 2022.

Happy National Donut Day! Virgin America began service to Portland International Airport (PDX) in 2012. This First-Class amenity kit features a cartoon illustration of a woman eating a Voodoo Doughnut in front of Mount Hood. What’s your favorite donut? #NationalDonutDay #AvGeek This tweet was posted on June 03, 2022.

Prior to their practical application, early motors demonstrated the novel idea that induction could produce a spinning force, such as this rotating wire frame by Daniel Davis, Jr, who was the first commercial maker of electromagnetic instruments in the U.S #ScientificInstruments This tweet was posted on June 06, 2022.

The long-awaited day has come: the Aviation Museum & Library re-opened today with a new facade and five new exhibitions! It’s open daily from 10:00am-4:30pm and remains free of charge. Learn more: https://t.co/6LDmtmJ33Q We’re excited to welcome you back! #avgeek #museum This tweet was posted on June 01, 2022.

📸: amenity kit: Virgin America, First Class; 2015 Gift of Brendan Hooley 2018.069.009 a c This tweet was posted on June 03, 2022.

Extremely fine calado entails pulling together selected fibers from the fabric to create uniform open areas in the weave; areas may then be embellished by embroidery to create a variety of geometric patterns. #PineappletoPina #piña #pineapple #lace This tweet was posted on June 07, 2022.

In this short by Puerto Rican-born filmmaker Pati Cruz Martínez, Maritere (Tete) receives a visit from an old friend during her husband’s funeral that reawakens feelings from the past. #VideoArts #VideoArtsSFO #pride #LaAmante #LGBT https://t.co/euPRKugD30 This tweet was posted on June 09, 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 07, 2022.

The other painstaking technique, sombrado, involves a type of appliqué, in which pieces of fabric, either very fine white cotton or piña, are cut into designs; the edges are then rolled and carefully stitched onto the fabric. #PineappletoPina #piña #pineapple #lace This tweet was posted on June 07, 2022.

Born in Harare, Shona sculptor Wonder Mazhindu learned to carve from his brother Picket Mazhindu Bumhira. After completing his education in 1999, he focused on stone carving and developed a distinctive style. #ZimbabweSculpture This tweet was posted on June 10, 2022.

Founded by George T. Baker in 1934, National Airlines started as an air mail carrier, as did many airlines at that time. By the end of the decade, the growing company opened a service to New Orleans, called the “Buccaneer Route.” #DefunctThursday #NationalAirlines #AvGeek This tweet was posted on June 09, 2022.

He explains, “I am proud to be a Shona and that the art movement is enlightening the world on our myths and beliefs. The carving movement has grown to where we are now into the fifth generation of carvers.” #ZimbabweSculpture #WonderMazhindu This tweet was posted on June 10, 2022.

In 1944, National was awarded a New York-Miami route; flights began the following year. Flight times on the route were shortened in 1946 when the Douglas DC-4 was introduced, allowing non-stop flights and increasing both revenue and prestige.#DefunctThursday #NationalAirlines This tweet was posted on June 09, 2022.

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.