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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.

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.