Pan Am Flight Bag
Object Details
- Natco Products Corporation
- Description
- Small, tapered rectangular, zip-top bag with rounded top corners and two strap handles on four metal button feet; made of heavyweight blue nylon fabric machine stitched with white piping and printed "PAA / PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS" in white on both sides. Zipper closes with a ring pull on short chain. Owner's name and address written in black marker on bottom outside. Maker's tag and bobby pin inside bag.
- In-flight bag used by donor when immigrating from Korea to be adopted in the United States in 1956.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- L. Susan (Soon-keum) Cox
- 1956
- DELETE
- ID Number
- 2003.0262.01
- catalog number
- 2003.0262.01
- accession number
- 2003.0262
- Object Name
- bag
- Physical Description
- nylon (overall material)
- plastic (piping, lining material)
- metal, yellow (zipper material)
- metal (feet material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6 1/2 in x 11 in x 4 1/2 in; 16.51 cm x 27.94 cm x 11.43 cm
- place made
- United States: Rhode Island, Providence
- DELETE
- United States: Rhode Island, Providence
- place issued
- Korea
- associated place
- United States: Oregon, Brownsville
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- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Advertising
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Adoption
- Air Travel
- Children
- Family
- Immigrants
- Immigration
- Record ID
- nmah_1296218
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-b1aa-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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