Pan Am Digital Collections
Pan American World Airways "A Very Small World Indeed" ad sketch, orginal sketch by Paolo Garretto
Pan Am Digital Collection
Thanks to a digitization grant awarded in 2016 by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the University of Miami Libraries was able to digitize the Printed Materials Series. This series is comprised of 60 boxes of materials which contain brochures, directories, annual reports, timetables, and periodicals. An additional digitization grant from Council on Library & Information Resources (CLIR) enabled the library to digitize even more materials from the collection including the Flights & Routes series, Speeches & Addresses, Press Releases, and Company Histories. UML's new digital collection is full-text searchable and publicly available.
Additionally, UML photographed nearly 500 cultural artifacts for HistoryMiami Museum (HMM) and hosts the new HMM Pan American World Airways Digital Collection. These collections are nicely complimented by the Pan American World Airways Advertisements collection created by Duke University who was also part of the CLIR grant. Together, the three institutions collaborated to create the world's first commercial aviation portal in the Digital Public Library of America, which contains all of these collections together alongside even more aviation materials from other institutions across America.
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Pan Am Periodicals
Pan American World Airways, Inc. published many periodicals, including employee newsletters, which it called “internal organs,” as well as travel guides and in-flight magazines. Listed below are the more than 130 periodical titles found in the Pan Am records. Many of these titles are located in the Printed Matrials Series and may be accessed digitally by clicking the links below. To physically view a periodical please submit a request via Aeon, the online user request management system for Special Collections and UM Libraries. All Special Collections materials are for room use only. Located on the 8th floor of the Otto G. Richter Library, Special Collections is open for research Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
