55 results for: Boeing Airplane Co.
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Eddie Hubbard's plane landing in Lake Union, Seattle, circa 1919
In March 1919, airplane manufacturer William Boeing and pilot Eddie Hubbard carried a sack of mail from Vancouver to Seattle in Boeing's private seaplane. This demonstration flight was the first known international air mail trip. It took the two men three hours each way, including stops. At the time, it took much longer for the mail to travel between the…
ID Number:1983.10.11080
Date:Circa 1919
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Boeing airplane and Kenworth truck, 1937
For many years, Boeing and Kenworth have been important Seattle-area industries. In this 1937 photo, a United Air Lines Boeing Model 247 and a Kenworth gasoline truck sit on the tarmac at a Seattle airport. The twin-engine transport plane carried ten passengers, their luggage, and 400 pounds of mail on routes along the west coast and between San Francisco and…
ID Number:1983.10.13696.1
Date:1937
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Boeing airplane and Kenworth truck, 1937
For many years, Boeing and Kenworth have been important Seattle-area industries. In this 1937 photo, a United Air Lines Boeing Model 247 and a Kenworth gasoline truck sit on the tarmac at a Seattle airport. The twin-engine transport plane carried ten passengers, their luggage, and 400 pounds of mail on routes along the west coast and between San Francisco and…
ID Number:1983.10.13696.3
Date:1937
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Worker inside Kenworth plant, Seattle, June 15, 1944
The Kenworth Motor Truck Company got its start building heavy-duty trucks for the timber industry. During World War II, the company participated in many war-related production contracts. Beginning in 1943, Kenworth began making components for the Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" bomber and the B-29 "Super Fortress" at its Seattle plant. Three shifts of workers carried out subassembly work on the…
ID Number:1983.10.14851.14
Date:1944
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Kenworth workers posing with airplane part, Seattle, June 15, 1944
The Kenworth Motor Truck Company got its start building heavy-duty trucks for the timber industry. During World War II, the company participated in many war-related production contracts. Beginning in 1943, Kenworth began making components for the Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" bomber and the B-29 "Super Fortress" at its Seattle plant. Three shifts of workers carried out subassembly work on the…
ID Number:1983.10.14851.16
Date:1944
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Women working on machines, Seattle, 1945
Women were employed in many jobs for wartime manufacturing throughout the Puget Sound area. These women are working with drill presses and a floor-mounted drill in the making of small machinery parts, possibly for airplane manufacture. Many small shops such as this became sub-contractors for Boeing during the World War II years. Webster & Stevens number: 45-94
ID Number:1983.10.15254.1
Date:1945
Audio recording
Oral history interview with Harold and Eileen Mansfield, December 27, 1984
Harold Mansfield was born in 1912 in White Salmon, Washington. He earned a BA in journalism. He joined Boeing as a publicity manager in 1936, and was the author of Vision: A Saga of the Sky (1956), a history of the Boeing Airplane Company.In this interview conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Life on the Homefront Oral History Project on…
ID Number:1985.134.11
Date:1984
Audio recording
Oral history interview with Robert McAusland, December 17, 1984
Robert McAusland was a twelve-year old boarding at Lakeside School on the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. In this interview conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Life on the Homefront Oral History Project on December 17, 1984, McAusland recalls airplanes, the camouflaged Boeing plant, and the airplane crash at Frye Packing Plant. He speaks about youth culture during the…
ID Number:1985.134.12
Date:1984
Videorecording
Oral history interview with Edward C. Wells, March 1985
Edward C. Wells (1910-1986) was an engineer and senior vice president of the Boeing Company, and served on the company’s board of directors. He played a major role in the design of Boeing planes, from bombers, such as the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-29, to jet transports, including the 707, 747 and others. Wells was born in Boise, Idaho and…
ID Number:1985.135.29
Date:1985
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Artist Weldon Butler in his studio, Seattle, February 13, 2002
Weldon Butler (1941-2019) began studying to become an artist when he was a teenager, looking at art at the local museum and training at Fleischer Art Memorial in Philadelphia. He moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1968 and studied art at Green River College before moving to Seattle in 1973, where he first showed his works at Bumbershoot and the…
ID Number:2000.107.2002.CD01.02.03.003
Date:2002