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Hawaii Clipper at the dock
Written on verso: "MOORING ...The Hawaii Clipper rests at its dock. The big flying boat weighed 52,252 pounds with a wingspan of 130 feet, compared to today's jets weighing 325,000 pounds with a wingspan of 145 feet 8.5 inches. Pan American World…
Hernández family, ca. 1962
The Hernández family looks at a map to find Los Angeles, California, where they were to resettle with the assistance of Catholic Relief Services.
History of Pan American Airways' and National Airlines' in-flight uniforms
Page 11 of Pan Am Clipper, Vol. 6, No. 1-2, January 1980. "Our image: past, present, future", collection of photographs illustrating the history of Pan Am's & National Airline's in-flight uniforms
Illustrations of Shakspeare [sic]
These nineteenth-century wood engravings with captions demonstrate a type of storytelling akin to today’s graphic-novels. Every play has six vignettes with a line from the play followed by scene number.
image from cover of GMRD Clipper, June 1964
image from cover of GMRD Clipper, June 1964. Caption on p.2 reads: "GT-1, the first of Gemini's three-step program to orbit a two-man capsule later this year was successfully launched in mid-March. Read Pan Am's part in Project Gemini beginning on…
image from cover of Pan American Air Ways, Vol. 4, No. 1, March 1933
artistic illustration of a Clipper flying boat; image from cover of Pan American Air Ways, Vol. 4, No. 1, March 1933