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- Collection: Cleared to Land: The Records of the Pan American World Airways, Inc.
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Loading eggs onto a Pan Am Clipper for shipment to Czechoslovakia by the United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Agency in 1946
Image from page 15 of New Horizons, Vol. 15, No. 3, July-Sep 1946 accompanying article entitled "Eggs to Restock Europe's Flocks". Caption reads: "One shipment of hatching eggs - nearly 11,000 of them - leave LaGuardia Field by Clipper."
Mailbags arranged in front of a Pan American Airways Sikorsky S-38
Written on front: "2384 pounds of U.S. mail carried by Pan American Airways, Inc. airliner on a single trip from Miami to Havana. In the 21 months to August 1st, 1929 the system carried a total of 631,376 pounds of U.S. mail. In that time 1,856,598…
Map: "A Northern Passage, San Francisco to Honolulu taken from Flight Chart Log of the China Clipper, May 10-11, 1936 - J.H. Tilton"
image from page 24 of New Horizons, Vol. 11, No. 8, May 1941. Caption reads: "Winds make the longest way round the shortest."
Map: "Commercial Air Transport Routes Established by Pan American Airways"
page 16 of "Wings Over the World: Pan American World Airways Annual Report for 1943"; centerfold map entitled "Commercial Air Transport Routes Established by Pan American Airways"
Map: "Looking Toward the Southern Americas"
image from pp.4-5 of Classroom Clipper, Vol. 1, No. 3, Dec. 1944. Left caption reads: "This unusual map shows Central America, the Caribbean area and part of South America as it would appear to you from a vantage point in the stratosphere over Texas,…
Map: "Our Clipper Trip to the Philippines"
image from page 2 of "Pan American World Airways Teacher: By Flying Clipper to the Philippines" illustrating an air route to the Philippine Islands via Hawaii, Wake Island, and Guam.
Map: "We've Got the World On a String Stretched in a Great Circle"
image from page 8 of Pan Am Clipper, Vol. 11, No. 6, Sep. 1985. Map depicts route established by Pan Am termed the "Great Circle Route"
Margaret Echols, one of the first stewardesses for Pan American Airways
Image from page 24 of New Horizons, Vol. 14, No. 10, Oct-Dec 1944. Caption reads: "Smiling welcome from within a Clipper is a Miami pioneer, Margaret Echols"
Najeeb Halaby presenting an architectural drawing of Pan Am's new maintenance base to be built in Los Angeles, CA.
Image from page 4 of Pan American Clipper, Vol. 28, No. 10, May 8, 1968. Caption reads: "Najeeb Halaby displays artist's rendering of $60 million maintenance base to be built in Los Angeles, at a press conference earlier this year."