Though tiny, National Parks Airways, was successful enough to acquire three #Boeing 247, one of which is featured on its calendar for 1937.
This tweet was posted on July 17, 2017.
To make a cyanotype for "Downwaste," Marquis coats a sheet of paper with cyanotype emulsion and hikes with it in a lightproof container through Glacier National Park to the melting edge of one of the twenty-six remaining glaciers. #JonathanMarquis #Downwaste #photography
This tweet was posted on July 14, 2023.
We've a new exhibit in T2! From Ship to Shore: Nautical Arts from the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park http://t.co/BTmFcKe0MG
This tweet was posted on May 24, 2013.
We've found some 4th of July flair in our collection, courtesy of National Airlines! http://t.co/eAHeYYae What are your holiday plans?
This tweet was posted on July 03, 2012.
What did SFO look like in 1970? In the Central Terminal (now Terminal 2) National Airlines' and Delta Air Lines' check in desks were next to each other. National moved to the North Terminal in 1979. Did you ever fly on National Airlines? #SFOHistory
This tweet was posted on July 12, 2018.
Yosemite was established as the third national park #onthisday in 1890 by the federal government. Yosemite Falls is shown on this United Air Lines calendar from the late 1940s. Have you ever been to #Yosemite? #FindYourPark
This tweet was posted on October 02, 2021.
Zimbabwe serves as a gateway to Victoria Falls, the world’s largest waterfall and one of the seven natural world wonders. The country’s largest wildlife sanctuary, Hwange National Park, includes one of the largest elephant populations in Africa. #ZimbabweSculpture
This tweet was posted on July 20, 2022.
Zoe Dell was active in the pilot community, helping to organize the Monterey Bay Chapter of The Ninety-Nines International Organization of Women Pilots in 1965. She and her husband are credited as founding members of the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio.
This tweet was posted on June 14, 2021.
“I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South...and from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations. I have built my own factory on my own ground!”
—Madam C. J. Walker addressing the National Negro Business League, 1912
This tweet was posted on April 01, 2021.
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Harold Bixby aboard a China National Aviation Corporation flying boat 1930s
photograph
Courtesy of Benjamin Barrett
R2023.1502.002
Harold Bixby and Chinese CNAC personnel 1930s
photograph
Collection of SFO Museum
2019.121.0102
R2023.1301.005
This tweet was posted on October 03, 2023.
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poster: Pan American World Airways, Boeing 747; 1969
Gift of Barnaby Conrad III
2001.038.145
timetable: Pan American World Airways and National Airlines, spring and summer schedule; 1980
Gift of Thomas G. Dragges
2002.135.054
This tweet was posted on August 25, 2022.
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poster: CNAC (China National Aviation Corporation); c. 1935
Purchase
2019.121.0018
negative: China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC); c. 1939
The Estate of Fred Nott
2004.016.191 a b
This tweet was posted on March 31, 2022.
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M-209 cipher machine c. 1940s
Designed by Boris Hagelin (1892–1983)
Smith & Corona Typewriters, Inc.
Syracuse, New York
Courtesy of the National Cryptologic Museum (@NatCryptoMuseum)
L2021.0910.001
This tweet was posted on March 28, 2022.
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poster: CNAC (China National Aviation Corporation); c. 1935
Purchase
2019.121.0018
negative: China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC); c. 1939
The Estate of Fred Nott
2004.016.191 a b
This tweet was posted on April 07, 2022.
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wall route map: CNAC (China National Aviation Corporation); late 1930s
Gift of Jeanne Jones Holder
2014.140.001
This tweet was posted on March 31, 2022.
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Female cryptologists working at Arlington Hall; Ann Caracristi (1921–2016), pictured front-right, later became deputy director of the National Security Agency (NSA) c. 1944
Arlington, Virginia
Courtesy of the National Cryptologic Museum (@NatCryptoMuseum)
R2021.0910.002
This tweet was posted on March 28, 2022.
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wall route map: CNAC (China National Aviation Corporation); late 1930s
Gift of Jeanne Jones Holder
2014.140.001
This tweet was posted on April 07, 2022.
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A woman operates a foolproof American SIGABA cipher machine, decrypting messages, and intercepting and forwarding enemy coded messages c. 1944
Courtesy of the National Cryptologic Museum (@NatCryptoMuseum)
R2021.0910.003
This tweet was posted on March 28, 2022.
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Katherine Stinson at the Curtiss Plant, Buffalo, New York 1917
photograph
Collection of the National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
86-7260
1993.10.12 a
R2020.2405.001
This tweet was posted on March 09, 2022.
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photograph: Charles M. Sundby, CNAC (China National Aviation Corporation), Hump; c. 1942-1945
Gift of Rechs Ann Sundby Pedersen, in memory of Captain Charles M. Sundby
2015.132.067
This tweet was posted on April 07, 2022.
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route map: CNAC (China National Aviation Corporation); 1948
Gift of Thomas G. Dragges
2014.095.341
timetable: CNAC (China National Aviation Corporation); 10/06/1949
Gift of Thomas G. Dragges
2015.167.292
This tweet was posted on April 07, 2022.
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Charles Kingsford Smith in the cockpit of the Southern Cross before takeoff for Canberra from Melbourne
June 15, 1928
photograph
National Library of Australia, Charles Ulm National Aviation Collection
PIC/8392/151
LOC ALBUM 1033/2
R2020.2409.002
This tweet was posted on October 05, 2022.
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National Convention of Madam C. J. Walker beauticians at Villa Lewaro; 1924
Irvington, New York
archival pigment reproduction print
Courtesy of @IndianaHistory's Madam C. J. Walker Collection
This tweet was posted on May 06, 2021.
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TWA (Trans World Airlines), Muir Woods; early 1950s
Gift of TWA Clipped Wings International
2002.113.497
TWA (Trans World Airlines), Yosemite; c. 1950
Gift of Thomas G. Dragges
2014.110.375
timetable: National Parks Airways; 1936
Purchase
2000.055.006
This tweet was posted on April 20, 2021.
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luggage label: National Air Lines; late 1930s
Gift of Thomas G. Dragges
2015.168.432
postcard: National Airlines, Douglas DC-4, Miami International Airport; 1952
Gift of Thomas G. Dragges
2015.166.2084
This tweet was posted on June 09, 2022.