Coat, Flight Attendant, Continental Airlines, ca. 1941
Object Details
- Physical Description
- Tan wool, lined, w/ 1 real and 1 fake upper slash pocket and 2 lower_slash pockets. 2 buttons down front. gold colored hostess wings w/ continental red, white, and blue bird insignia on left lapel
- Summary
- Flight Attendant
- Continental Airlines, early 1940s
- Jean Begley Bluestein wore this uniform while flying on Continental DC-3s.
- Gift of Jean Begley Bluestein
- Inventory Number
- A19900347000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- PERSONAL EQUIPMENT-Uniforms: Civil
- Materials
- Organic Fiber Fabrics
- Copper Alloy
- Enamel
- Plastic
- Dimensions
- Clothing (On Mannequin): 65 × 45 × 15cm (2 ft. 1 9/16 in. × 1 ft. 5 11/16 in. × 5 7/8 in.)
- 3-D (Badge): 7.7 × 1 × 2cm (3 1/16 × 3/8 × 13/16 in.)
- Clothing (Flat Storage): 59.1 × 83.8 × 5.1cm (1 ft. 11 1/4 in. × 2 ft. 9 in. × 2 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
- Exhibition
- America by Air
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19900347000
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9a1edea19-139d-4ccc-861c-83cfd9587a2a
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