Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Sears Roebuck & Co.
- Physical Description
- Coat, dark blue, with flapless pockets below, and four blue buttons on front. Silver "AA" stewardess wings on upper left pocket. Arm band on upper left arm with embroidered "AA" flag and "Flagship Fleet" in white letters.
- Summary
- Stewardess
- American Airlines, 1936–37
- Alice Lambert wore this uniform while flying on Curtiss Condors and Douglas DC-2s and DC-3s for American Airlines. Following the nautical theme started by Pan Am, American called its airplanes “flagships,” a term that appears on the left sleeve.
- Gift of Alice Lambert Coker
- Credit Line
- Donated by Mrs. Alice Lambert Coker
- Inventory Number
- A19730965000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- PERSONAL EQUIPMENT-Uniforms: Civil
- Materials
- Organic Fiber Fabric
- Synthetic Fiber Fabric
- Plastic
- Non-Magnetic White Metal
- Enamel
- Ink
- Dimensions
- Clothing (On Mannequin): 65 × 41 × 17cm (2 ft. 1 9/16 in. × 1 ft. 4 1/8 in. × 6 11/16 in.)
- 3-D (Badge): 5.5 × 1 × 1.5cm (2 3/16 × 3/8 × 9/16 in.)
- Clothing (Folded in Storage): 66.7 × 67.3 × 5.1cm (2 ft. 2 1/4 in. × 2 ft. 2 1/2 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_A19730965000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9acda93e9-ad3b-4dde-a669-da6eff90b1dc
