Airline Transportation Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1960 Delta Air Lines promotional poster. The poster shows a Douglas Super DC-8 jetliner in flight, and came out only a couple of years after the craft's 1958 debut. The poster is signed Toigo. VINTAGE: Circa 1960...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1970s lapel pin for thirty years of membership with the United Transportation Union (UTU). Based in Cleveland, Ohio, the UTU formed on the first day of 1969, consolidating four large pre-existing unions. A member's longevity...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1970s member lapel pin for the United Transportation Union (UTU). Based in Cleveland, Ohio, the UTU formed on the first day of 1969, consolidating four large pre-existing unions. The union includes members working in the railway...

ARTIFACT: This is a lapel pin for the Air Lines Pilot Association, which formed in 1931 to represent the interests of both Canadian and American airlines. The pin is a petite wing with a globe at its center reading ALPA. VINTAGE: Circa late 1940's...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1965 graduation wing from the Grace Downs Air Career School, a former school for aspiring stewardesses on Long Island, New York. The wing is engraved to Mildred Mathe on its reverse. VINTAGE: Circa 1965. SIZE: Approximately 5/8" x...

ARTIFACT: This is a large tie bar shaped like a DC-4 airliner. The Douglas DC-4 served during World War II and beyond and was also the choice for some countries' civil airlines after the war. VINTAGE: Circa 1950s. SIZE: Approximately 2-1/2" x...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa late 1940s graduate lapel wing from Ward Airline Training School. The wing bears the company's motto: PIONEER IN AIRLIE TRAINING. VINTAGE: Circa late 1940s. SIZE: Approximately 3/8" x 1-9/16" CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Gilt...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1930 member wing pin for the Sky Roads Flying Club, for a member who had achieved he rank of Major in the club. Skyroads was a cartoon penned by two World War I pilots that debuted in 1929, and the flying club grew out of...

ARTIFACT: This is an aviation pin in 10 karat gold shaped like a petite wing. VINTAGE: Circa 1930s. SIZE: Approximately 5/16" in height and 1" in width. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: 10K gold. ATTACHMENT: Single screw post with disc...

ARTIFACT: This is an unidentified aviation association lapel pin, originally belonging to Pan American Airways (PAA) pioneer pilot R. O. D. (Robert Oliver Daniel) Sullivan. Sullivan joined the United States Navy in 1918, functioning as a flight...

ARTIFACT: This is a historically significant National Aeronautic Association of the United States (NAA) five years of membership lapel pin, originally belonging to Pan American Airways (PAA) pioneer pilot R. O. D. (Robert Oliver Daniel) Sullivan...

ARTIFACT: This is a historically significant National Aeronautic Association of the United States (NAA) one year of membership lapel pin, originally belonging to Pan American Airways (PAA) pioneer pilot R. O. D. (Robert Oliver Daniel) Sullivan. Sullivan...