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Trans World Airlines Plane Nose
Trans World Airlines Plane Nose
Trans World Airlines Plane Nose

Trans World Airlines Plane Nose

Photographer
Dateca. 1950
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions7 3/16 × 9 3/16 in. (18.3 × 23.3 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of John Airy
Object numberPA1982.180.056
DescriptionThe image depicts several men loading cargo into a Trans World Airlines DC-3 plane at the Albuquerque Airport in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The writing on the plane's nose reads "City of Los Angeles. TWA. U.S. Mail A.M. 34". The plane is chrome. The men below the plane are loading luggage and boxes of "Sealright Liquid-Tight Food Containers" into the cargo section of the aircraft. The four men are all wearing white uniforms.
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