The Pan Am Building rises above midtown Manhattan, looking austerely modern against the Chrysler Building, 1960s.
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The Pan Am Building rises above midtown Manhattan, looking austerely modern against the Chrysler Building, 1960s.
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“The world is waiting,” a 1967 recruitment advertisement in Time told readers.
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A 1963 advertisement highlights American service across the Atlantic.
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Lynne Totten as a newly minted Pan Am stewardess in her 1970 training photo
Lynne D. Rawling
Karen Walker, center row, second from the right, training-class photo, 1969
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Karen Walker sits in the engine of a Boeing 707, early 1970s.
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Tori Werner’s training photo, 1966
Tori Werner
Tori Werner on a sightseeing trip during a layover in the Philippines, early 1970s
Tori Werner
New stewardess Hazel Bowie in her training photo, 1972
Hazel Bowie
Clare Christiansen, center, along with six other former stewardesses, saw her promotion to supervisor detailed in the employee newsletter, 1969.
Pan Am Clipper, Vol. 20, No. 26, December 22, 1969. Pan Am Records, Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Miami Libraries
Cocktail service aboard a new Pan Am Boeing 707, circa 1958
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In a Vogue photo shoot, models pose with Pan Am bags at the new Worldport, 1960.
John Rawlings, Vogue © Condé Nast.
A 1964 class of new stewardesses amid the regular traffic of the Worldport
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Pan Am’s space-age Worldport with jet planes mid-boarding
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New recruits pose around a Pan Am globe at Miami’s stewardess school, late 1960s.
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“Seeing quadruple?” asked an employee newsletter article on twin pursers Elaine and Lorraine Vaughn, 1969.
Pan Am Clipper, Vol. 29, No. 14, July 7, 1969. Pan Am Records, Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Miami Libraries
Stewardesses walk away from a Boeing 707, mid-1960s.
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A special issue of the crew newsletter shows off both the new 747 and the new stewardess uniforms, 1969.
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A stewardess serves dinner in the upstairs lounge of the 747, 1970s.
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An advertisement falls in line with the era’s innuendo, 1970s.
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Stewardesses on the ground in Saigon between flights, circa 1967
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The first symbol of in-flight service on Vietnam flights: a smiling stewardess greeting the soldiers departing from Saigon, circa 1967.
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Troops on the ground in Saigon guard a Pan Am jet, 1966.
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After a flight from Vietnam to Honolulu, servicemen receive leis from a stewardess, circa 1967.
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Lynne Totten fills baby bottles en route to Saigon for Operation Babylift.
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Karen Walker, left, and Tori Werner, right, assemble and arrange bassinets for the youngest babies.
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The scene on the tarmac upon landing at Tan Son Nhut
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Karen Walker carries an infant aboard.
Karen Walker Ryan
Bassinets and cardboard boxes on and below the seats of one of the babylift flights
National Archives, Gerald R. Ford Library
President Ford greets the first load of infants at San Francisco International Airport.
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Stewardess recruitment materials advertised less war-torn international travel opportunities, 1970s.
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