Yankee Clipper flight

Title
Yankee Clipper flight
Creator
Associated Press
Institution
TCU
Link
https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/54542
Description
Photo of Amon Carter and Ed Swasey at a ticket counter. On reverse: "12057 Associated Press Photo from New York Caution: Use Credit Executives Buy Ocean Hop Tickets Amon Carter, Fort Worth, Tex., publisher, and Ed Swasey, San Francisco advertising executive, are shown at the ticket counter of the Pan-American transatlantic terminal, Port Washington, L.I., July 8, as they check their reservations before taking off on the Yankee Clipper on the first commercial flight across the Atlantic over the northern route. Associated Press photo Ft Worth FX Oak FLS JSB215P7-8-39LJ(7)."
Date
1939-07-08
Decade
1930s
Subjects
Aviation
Pan American World Airways (Pan Am)
Air travel
Clipper flights
Evans, Silliman
Source
Box 264, Pan American Airways - Yankee Clipper to the U.K., 1939 Folder, Item 007
Type
Image
Formats
7x9.25 Photo
Rights
Prior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any document or photograph

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