National Air and Space Museum Archives

Airline Baggage Label Collection

Summary

Collection ID:
NASM.XXXX.0146
Creators:
Institute of Aeronautical Sciences
Dates:
bulk 1920-1990
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
13 Cubic feet
(18 boxes)
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
This artificial collection consists of a wide variety of airline timetables, memorabilia, baggage tags, and logos, aircraft company logos, aviation school logos, bumper stickers, and balloon prints. The material covers airlines and aircraft companies from around the world. There are also 1986 - 1987 Air Transport Label Catalogs.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
Baggage labels were first supplied by steamship companies to passengers for identification purposes during the 1800s, and hotels, resorts, and railroad companies soon followed suit. In the 1920s, airlines began to offer them to their commercial passengers as well. The baggage labels were a valuable advertising tool for the companies as passengers began to accumulate these often artistic labels on their luggage as travel status symbols.

Administration

Immediate Source of Acquisition
Institute of Aeronautical Sciences, Gift, Unknown

Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access.
Preferred Citation
Airline Baggage Label Collection, Accession XXXX-0146, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Conditions Governing Use
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests

Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Aeronautics Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Airlines Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Luggage Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Advertisements Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Labels Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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