Related Resources
Flying ace Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and "Cannonball" Baker, celebrated racing driver, boarding a Pan American flight at Dinner Key
Related Resources
Beyond the Pan American World Airways, Inc. Records, University of Miami Libraries Special Collections houses additional Pan Am resources spanning over 150 linear feet. Special Collections is open to the public and encourages the use of our collections. To view additional Pan Am resources, 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 in the Kislak Center Reading Room on the first floor of the Otto G. Richter Library, Special Collections is open for research Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The following Pan American Inc. adjacent collections are available for research at Special Collections. The titles link to the finding aid for each respective collection.
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Charles Lorber Papers David Abrams Papers Dolores Pla Menocal Photographs Donald K. Usher Papers Dorothy Brannen Thomas Collection Frank Marion Briggs Papers J.T. Carlson Papers |
Leonard Albasi/Gill Family Collection Lucy Desrosiers Papers Lueder, Price, Ortiz-Bello and Williamson Papers Pan American Historical Foundation Records Port Washington Public Library Oral History Collection Richard L. Kruse Papers W. R. Peters Pan Am Photographs William L. Witherspoon Papers World Wings International Records
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Media
The library also has recordings of Pan Am-related events held on campus.
- Evans, Bryce. (2018) "Pan Am: A Gastronomic History", Video of presentation at
University of Miami Libraries.
- University of Miami Libraries. (2015) "Cleared to Land: Celebrating a Milestone for the Pan American World Airways, Inc. Records", Video of event held at the Robert & Judi Prokop Newman Alumni
Center, January 29, 2015.
Air Ferries division of Pan American World Airways, training section
External Resources
The Pan Am Historical Foundation website is an excellent resource for information on Pan Am’s history and the activities of the Foundation, as the company’s official legacy base. The site features narrative and descriptive essays written by former employees and aviation experts and archival images and video, as well as an extensive compilation of publications.
Pan Am's globe-trotting flight attendants from around the world
Many institutions' Pan Am and other commercial aviation records can now be found in the Cleared For Takeoff: Explore Commercial Aviation Portal located in the Digital Public Library of America, including the University of Miami Libraries, HistoryMiami Museum, and Duke University who all partnered together to create this portal.
Additionally, you may also wish to visit:
- Pan American World Airways Collections Guide, Duke University Libraries
- HistoryMiami Museum Pan American World Airways Collection
- Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Archival Collections
- Records of the Civil Aeronautics Board, National Archives
- Charles Augustus Lindbergh Papers, Yale University Library
- Florida Photographic Collection, Florida Memory Project, State Archives of Florida
- History of Aviation Collection, University of Texas Dallas Special Collections
- San Diego Air and Space Museum Archival Collection
- San Francisco Airport Commission Aviation Library and Louis A. Turpen Aviation Museum
- Syracuse University Pan Am Flight 103 Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives
- Eastern Air Lines Collections, Georgia State University
- Trans World Airlines (TWA) Records, The State Historical Society of Missouri [Finding aid only; for digitized material, see TWA Skyliner Magazine collection ]
