Alaska Airlines Archive 1950s-1990s: Ephemera, Photos, & Promotional Collateral
Various: Alaska Airlines, Various. Leatherbound Binders. Collection includes a broad variety of Alaska Airlines material including pinbacks, luggage tags flight schedules, photographs, patches for employee uniforms, two 1948 large-format calendars, and company-issued periodicals. Includes a complete set of 25 company-issued trading cards (and a couple duplicates), issued in 1997, each featuring a specific aircraft in the airlines' history, complemented by historical details of their deployment in the firm's fleet. A few photos are documented on verso: Cook Inlet, May 1955/Plane coming in 741 (Gray Ghost)/Tom Wordley - Pilot,. Embroidered company patches include those for Alaska Airlines (5) and Alaska Coastal Airlines (2), a competitor acquired in 1968. The two calendars, both for the year 1948, measure 17 x 22 inches, and feature large photographs of Alaska Airlines activity and Alaska landscapes.
In sum, 150 distinct items (the card collection counted as a single item), dating from 1950s- 1990s. Condition ranges from Good to Fine, with Very Good+ applying to most items. Archive is housed in sleeves in three matching blue leatherbound binders.
. Very Good +. Item #1515Starting with a used Stinson SM-8A, Linious McGee founded McGee Airways in 1932, flying a route between Anchorage and Bristol Bay. Over the span of decades the airlines consolidated Alaska's disparate puddle-jumpers and bush-route operators, establishing the name Alaska Airlines in the 1940s. In the 1960s the firm entered the jet era, while solidifying home-state command with the 1968 acquisition of Alaska Coastal Airlines and Cordova Airlines.
.Price: $750.00