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“Unlocking an Archival Treasure: The Harold Bixby Collection” is on display in the Aviation Museum and Library. Located pre-security in the International Terminal, the Aviation Museum and Library is open daily from 10am to 4:30pm. https://t.co/La8EOloWrY #BixbyCollection This tweet was posted on August 27, 2024.

“Unlocking an Archival Treasure: The Harold Bixby Collection” is on display in the Aviation Museum and Library. Located pre-security in the International Terminal, the Aviation Museum and Library is open daily from 10am to 4:30pm. https://t.co/La8EOloWrY #BixbyCollection This tweet was posted on June 18, 2024.

Harold Bixby, a midwestern businessman, started working for Pan American Airways in 1933 and helped manage PAA’s partnership in the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC). This image illustrates the Chinese-American partnership that made up the CNAC. #BixbyCollection This tweet was posted on June 18, 2024.

“Unlocking an Archival Treasure: The Harold Bixby Collection” is on display in the Aviation Museum and Library. Located pre-security in the International Terminal, the Aviation Museum and Library is open daily from 10am to 4:30pm. https://t.co/MvwMYD0SyN #BixbyCollection This tweet was posted on January 08, 2024.

Bixby joined Pan American in 1933 and worked for the airline for the rest of his career, retiring in 1955. #BixbyCollection #PanAm #HaroldBixby #AvGeek This tweet was posted on January 08, 2024.

This connection led Bixby, at age 43, to accept a position with Pan American Airways (PAA) to manage the airline’s interests in Asia, primarily PAA’s partnership in the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) & opening transpacific flying boat service. #BixbyCollection #PanAm This tweet was posted on January 08, 2024.

In 1927, Harold Bixby joined a group of St. Louis businessmen to finance Charles Lindbergh’s historic non-stop transatlantic flight that year. Bixby is seen here smiling just behind Lindbergh. Lindbergh named his plane “The Spirit of St. Louis” in their honor. #BixbyCollection This tweet was posted on January 08, 2024.

Our photography essay “Unlocking an Archival Treasure: The Harold Bixby Collection, The Photographs” featuring 21 highlights from Harold Bixby’s life with Pan American, is on display in the Aviation Museum and Library. https://t.co/MvwMYD0SyN #BixbyCollection #PanAm #AvGeek This tweet was posted on December 29, 2023.

The Bixby Collection includes photographs of the aviation scene at Lambert Field in St. Louis in the 1920s, the operations of the China National Aviation Corporation in the 1930s, and the arrival of #PanAm’s inaugural transpacific flight in Manila in 1935. #BixbyCollection This tweet was posted on December 29, 2023.

The Harold Bixby Collection, acquired by SFO Museum in 2019, contains over five hundred photographic prints and negatives collected by Harold Bixby throughout his career at #PanAm. #BixbyCollection #PAA #AvGeek #HaroldBixby This tweet was posted on December 29, 2023.

Harold McMillan Bixby, a midwestern businessman with a strong interest in the emerging technology of aviation, worked for Pan American Airways in the 1930s to the 1950s. #BixbyCollection #PanAm #PAA #AvGeek #HaroldBixby This tweet was posted on December 29, 2023.

In 1927, Bixby joined a group of businessmen to help finance Charles Lindbergh’s (1902-74) historic transatlantic flight later that year. Bixby celebrated with the famous pilot after his arrival in St. Louis during the 1928 Goodwill Tour of the Americas. #BixbyCollection This tweet was posted on December 08, 2023.