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poster: Alaska Airlines, Ketchikan; c. 1980
Gift of Thomas G. Dragges
2001.135.028
Young Frankenstein movie poster 1981
John Henry Alvin
Topps Chewing Gum reprint
Anonymous lender
R2024.0602.002
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See "Artists of the Airways: Airline Travel Posters from the SFO Museum Collection" on display in the Aviation Museum and Library. The Aviation Museum and Library is located pre-security, in the International Terminal. bit.ly/AirwaysArtists
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John Henry Alvin was one of Hollywood’s most recognized, award-winning poster artists. Over the course of his career, from the early 1970s to the early 2000s, Alvin created movie posters for over 135 films.
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American Airlines San Francisco travel poster 1960s
Dong Kingman
Collection of SFO Museum
2023.129.002
R2024.0601.022
Pan American World Airways destinations travel poster c. 1970
Dong Kingman
Collection of SFO Museum
2023.129.004
R2024.0601.024
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See "Artists of the Airways: Airline Travel Posters from the SFO Museum Collection" on display in the Aviation Museum and Library. The Aviation Museum and Library is located pre-security, in the International Terminal. bit.ly/AirwaysArtists
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Kingman also composed watercolor paintings for Pan American World Airways in the 1970s and ‘80s, including this colorful kite poster promoting many worldwide destinations.
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To advertise American’s service to San Francisco in the early 1960s, Dong Kingman painted a captivating watercolor view of busy Chinatown facing north down Grant Avenue with a cable car passing on California Street and Coit Tower in the background. #AirwaysArtists #DongKingman #AvGeek
During the 1960s and ‘70s, American Airlines operated numerous nonstop transcontinental routes between Los Angeles and San Francisco and major East Coast cities and offered a wide array of services throughout the U.S.
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