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| Title | Boeing Clipper seaplane interior showing two women seated at a table near the window, 1938 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1938 |
| Caption | The lavish furnishings of Boeing's Model 314 rivaled the luxury and comfort of ocean liners and transcontinental trains. Here Nancy Barnum and Virginia Moore relax in one of five standard passenger compartments aboard the Pan American Airways Clipper No. 2. Each compartment was furnished with 10 seats upholstered in wool tapestry with leather trim and a removable bridge table. Other amenities for the 74 passengers included both men's and women's dressing rooms, a galley that served gourmet meals catered from four-star hotels, a dining room that could seat 14 diners, and a deluxe compartment, or bridal suite. Boeing built 12 Clippers between 1938 and 1941. The four-engine flying boat had a 3, 500 mile range and made its first trans-Atlantic flight June 28, 1939. |
| Notes | Handwritten on top of image: Boeing Clipper interior.
Handwritten on bottom of image: Nancy Barnum -- Virginia Moore.
Handwritten on sleeve: AIRPLANES, Boeing 707 jetliner christening ceremony.
Caption information source: P-I article, December 19, 1938; P-I research files; http://www.boeing.com/history/boeing/m314.html.
Date photograph was published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: December 19, 1938. |
| Subjects | Boeing Clipper (Seaplane); Seaplanes--Washington (State); Interiors--Washington (State); Travel--Washington (State); Boeing Aircraft Company; Pan American Airways Corporation; Aircraft industry--Washington (State) |
| Personal Names | Barnum, Nancy
Moore, Virginia |
| Places | United States--Washington (State) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.185.2 |
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| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 nitrate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
