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Image from page 4 of brochure entitled "Ten Thousand Times Around the World: How 17 Years' Experience Made Possible the Story of the Clippers at War". Caption reads: "The Dixie Clipper again - this time the interior. The date is January 30, 1942…

The lighthouse was named for the British warship H.M.S. Fowey, which was wrecked at that location in 1748. The lighthouse now stands within the boundaries of Biscayne National Park.

Between December 12, 1960 and October 23, 1962, over 14,000 Cuban children arrived unaccompanied in Miami. Through the Operation Pedro Pan program headed by Father Bryan O. Walsh, Cuban parents expedited their children's expatriation ahead of their…

Page 2 of brochure entitled "Distinctive dining in the Pan Am style: it makes all the difference in the world"

Image from page 1 of Pan American Air Ways, Vol. 8, No. 3, March 1937. Caption reads: "Speeding over Alcatraz Island toward the Golden Gate, the new Pan American Clipper sets out on new chapter of aerial pioneering."

Image from page 17 of Pan American Air Ways, Vol. 4, No. 3, June 1933. Caption reads: "Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, America's Ace of Aces in the world war, and "Cannonball" Baker, celebrated racing driver, about to embark at Dinner Key."

The photographs were not only the reflection of an aesthetic appreciation of the new land but were also used to study and document the tropical flora and fauna. Some of this work appeared in an 1886 article of the Evening Post which depicted…

Page 12 of Pan American World Airways Annual Report for 1977. Upper caption reads: "New longitudinal galley in 747SP runs lengthwise along the starboard side of the cabin, out of the passengers' sight. Its unique location also makes it a more…