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Title: Flying freight car
Date(s): 1940/1949, 1940, 1949
Contributor(s): United Air Lines, Inc. (photographer), Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America (originator)
Description: In anticipation of the trend toward increasingly heavy air cargoes, United Air Lines launched the nations first high speed all cargo air service from New York to Chicago early this year. United officials predict that flying freight cards such as this one will be commonplace on the airways of tomorrow. Meanwhile air speed is proving vital in the handling of national defense and other shipments linked with the current business speed up.
Collection ID: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs and audiovisual materials, Series II. Nation's Business photographs (Accession 1993.230.II)
Hagley ID: PC20110428_501
Collection: Chamber of Commerce of the United States collections

Title: Three miles a minute (No 5 of a series)
Date(s): 1951
Contributor(s): United Air Lines, Inc. (photographer), Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America (originator)
Description: United Air Lines DC-3 Mainliner in flight
Collection ID: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs and audiovisual materials, Series II. Nation's Business photographs (Accession 1993.230.II)
Hagley ID: PC20101231_019
Collection: Chamber of Commerce of the United States collections

Title: As air mail grew (No 3 of a series)
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): United Air Lines, Inc. (photographer), Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America (originator)
Description: 25th anniversary of coast-to-coast airway observed at New York's LaGuardia Airport
Collection ID: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs and audiovisual materials, Series II. Nation's Business photographs (Accession 1993.230.II)
Hagley ID: PC20101231_016
Collection: Chamber of Commerce of the United States collections

Title: Sky giant of today (No 6 of a series)
Date(s): 1951
Contributor(s): United Air Lines, Inc. (photographer), Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America (originator)
Description: DC-6 Mainliner 300
Collection ID: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs and audiovisual materials, Series II. Nation's Business photographs (Accession 1993.230.II)
Hagley ID: PC20101231_017
Collection: Chamber of Commerce of the United States collections

Title: As commercial flying opened (No 1 of a series)
Date(s): 1925
Contributor(s): United Air Lines, Inc. (photographer), Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America (originator)
Description: Swallow bi-plane used on first privately contracted air mail routes.
Collection ID: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs and audiovisual materials, Series II. Nation's Business photographs (Accession 1993.230.II)
Hagley ID: PC20101231_018
Collection: Chamber of Commerce of the United States collections

Title: Luxury plus speed
Date(s): 1937-08
Contributor(s): United Air Lines, Inc. (photographer), Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America (originator)
Description: Salon of United Air Lines Skylounge is large enough for a full size table in the aisle for bridge or dining.
Collection ID: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs and audiovisual materials, Series II. Nation's Business photographs (Accession 1993.230.II)
Hagley ID: PC20110412_205
Collection: Chamber of Commerce of the United States collections

Title: Cloud courier of '27 (No 2 of a series)
Date(s): 1927
Contributor(s): United Air Lines, Inc. (photographer), Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America (originator)
Description: Boeing 40-B2's of this type carried mail and passengers between San Francisco and Chicago in 1927 on the 1,918-mile route of Boeing Air Transport, a predecessor company of United Air lines which marks its 25th anniversary this year. Payload of the single-engined transport plane was 1,000 pounds, including two passengers, mail and baggage. Cruising speed was 105 miles an hour, compared with five-mile-a-minute, 50-passenger DC-6 Mainliners of today. (1951?)
Collection ID: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs and audiovisual materials, Series II. Nation's Business photographs (Accession 1993.230.II)
Hagley ID: PC20101231_003
Collection: Chamber of Commerce of the United States collections

Title: Winged marvel of yesteryear (No 3 of a series)
Date(s): 1928
Contributor(s): United Air Lines, Inc. (photographer), Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America (originator)
Description: This tri-motored Boeing 80-A, shown flying over Chicago, seemed a veritable 'winged marvel' when introduced to air travelers in 1928 on the Chicago-San Francisco route of Boeing Air Transport, a predecessor company of United Air Lines
Collection ID: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs and audiovisual materials, Series II. Nation's Business photographs (Accession 1993.230.II)
Hagley ID: PC20101231_004
Collection: Chamber of Commerce of the United States collections

Title: A United Mainliner preparing for night departure from Burbank, California (Union Air Terminal)
Date(s): 1947
Contributor(s): United Air Lines, Inc. (photographer), Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America (originator)
Description: DC-3
Collection ID: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs and audiovisual materials, Series II. Nation's Business photographs (Accession 1993.230.II)
Hagley ID: PC20101231_014
Collection: Chamber of Commerce of the United States collections

Title: Famous London-Melbourne Plane Now Carring Passengers on Mid-Continent Airway
Date(s): 1934
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), United Air Lines, Inc. (originator)
Description: Text on verso: 'Miss Clara Johnson, United Air Lines stewardess, points to the special markings on the 200-mile-an-hour Boeing twin-engined transport which Col. Roscoe Turner and Clyde Pangborn flew in the 13,323-mile London-Melbourne race. This plane is now the flagship of the new and faster Boeings which have been place in service on the New York-Chicago-Pacific coast route of United.'
Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00479
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: W.A. Patterson, president of United Air Lines, "You say vibrator power supplies can increase safety and comfort in planes?"
Date(s): 1944-07
Contributor(s): Electronic Laboratories Inc. (originator), Patterson, William A. (William Allan), 1899-1980 (depicted)
Collection ID: John Okolowicz collection of publications and advertising on radio and consumer electronics (Accession 2014.277), Radio News
Hagley ID: AVDJOPN2014_electronic-labs-RN-7-44
Collection: John Okolowicz collection of publications and advertising on radio and consumer electronics