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Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, arrives at airport, Seattle, June 11, 1954
The Emperor of Ethiopia arrived by plane on the morning of June 11. He was taken to the Boeing Company for a tour, then to Bremerton to inspect the naval shipyard. His entourage then returned to Seattle, checked into the Olympic Hotel and attended a reception at the Rainier Club. Typed on negative sleeve: Haile Selassie, Emp. Ethiopia, 6/11/54.
ID Number:1986.5.41687.9
Date:1954
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Protestors at Boeing, Seattle, 1970
Sign in image: Build Transit at Boeing - End Layoffs. Handwritten on sleeve: Protest March on Boeing. Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): November 5, 1970.
ID Number:1986.5.53184.1
Date:1970
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Charles Lindbergh in parade, Seattle, September 13, 1927
In May 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh made the first solo nonstop flight between New York and Paris in his plane the "Spirit of St. Louis." Lindbergh immediately became an international celebrity and was greeted with parades and gifts everywhere he went. He visited Seattle on September 13 and 14, 1927, where excited citizens presented him with a monogrammed gold ring…
ID Number:1986.5G.1524
Date:1927
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Eddie Hubbard and unidentified man in mail plane, Seattle, circa 1919
Local Seattle pilot and visionary, Eddie Hubbard, saw the value of using aviation to provide faster mail service. After convincing his boss, William Boeing, that people would pay for mail delivered by air, he completed the first international flight delivering mail on March 3, 1919 from Vancouver, British Columbia to Seattle, Washington. Active in many flight activities, he managed to…
ID Number:1986.5G.1145.1
Date:Circa 1919
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Gorst Air Transport seaplane with ferry in background, Seattle, circa 1933
Vernon C. Gorst, who previously had founded Pacific Air Transport in 1926, (which provided the first airmail service between Los Angeles and Seattle), established Gorst Air Transport sometime in the late 1920s. This photo shows the Keystone-Loening Amphibious "Air Yacht" provided service between Seattle and Bremerton. Gorst's "Air Ferry Line" provided hourly commuter flights between Seattle and Bremerton for two…
ID Number:1987.45.15
Date:Circa 1933
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Gorst Air Transport seaplane on dock, Seattle, circa 1933
Vernon C. Gorst, who previously had founded Pacific Air Transport in 1926, (which provided the first airmail service between Los Angeles and Seattle), established Gorst Air Transport sometime in the late 1920s. This photo shows the Keystone-Loening Amphibious "Air Yacht" provided service between Seattle and Bremerton. Gorst's "Air Ferry Line" provided hourly commuter flights between Seattle and Bremerton for two…
ID Number:1987.45.16
Date:Circa 1933
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Gorst Air Transport seaplanes at Pier 3, Seattle, circa 1933
Gorst Air Transport "Air Ferry" service used amphibian planes which would land in the water and then move up onto the ramp for safe and convenient passenger loading. There were various amphibious commuter biplanes used, manufactured by Boeing (the B-1E, the 204 and later the larger Model 80 and 80A tri-motors), by Keystone-Loening (the Amphibian Air Yacht), by Ryan (the…
ID Number:1987.45.17
Date:Circa 1933
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Boeing Marine Systems brochure, circa 1972
In the mid-twentieth century Seattle's aerospace giant, The Boeing Company, saw a market in fast ferries. The company began adapting many systems used in jet airplanes for passenger-carrying waterjet-propelled hydrofoils. Boeing Marine Systems (BMS) built their first hydrofoil at the Renton plant in 1960, and manufactured about 8 hydrofoils for the U. S. military, and 28 that were used in…
ID Number:1987.72.7
Date:Circa 1972
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New sign at SeaTac airport, October 1983
In September 1983, shortly after the death of longtime US Senator for Washington Henry "Scoop" Jackson, the Port of Seattle commission decided to rename Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (or SeaTac for short) to Henry M. Jackson International Airport in his honor. Tacoma officials objected that the name change both insulted their city and violated the deal made when the airport first…
ID Number:2000.107.005.05.01
Date:1983
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Workers removing sign at SeaTac airport, March 1984
In September 1983, shortly after the death of longtime US Senator for Washington Henry "Scoop" Jackson, the Port of Seattle commission decided to rename Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (or SeaTac for short) to Henry M. Jackson International Airport in his honor. Tacoma officials objected that the name change both insulted their city and violated the deal made when the airport first…
ID Number:2000.107.005.05.02
Date:1984