Images of the Week: Northwest Douglas DC-3
The Delta Museum has been working hard this year to collect and preserve Northwest Airlines history in the Delta Corporate Archives housed in Atlanta. A highlight of the incoming materials has turned out to be 2 small photo albums of black and white photos taken in 1939. They show what it was like to fly and work in Northwest’s [...]
Image of the Week: 1934 Delta/Eastern Schedule
Browsing through the Delta Archives for exhibit images, I turned up this wonderful 1934 joint schedule from Delta and Eastern for travel from New York to Dallas via Atlanta. Click here to see front & back. In the same folder with the schedule was a perspective on air travel by longtime Delta engineer Art Ford in [...]
King Tut: The Golden King and The Great Pharaohs
Thirty years after the wonders of King Tut had their celebrated Canadian debut at the Art Gallery of Ontario, an even bigger exhibition – Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs – will make its sole Canadian appearance at the AGO with a members-only preview starting November 21 and public opening November 24. The [...]
Wrap Up: Delta Museum Collectibles Show/Sale
We really enjoyed hosting this year’s Airline Collectibles Show and Sale in Atlanta on October 17th. Close to 700 aviation memorabilia vendors, collectors and enthusiasts of all ages joined us in Delta’s Historic Hangars 1 and 2, and we raised over $16,000 for the non-profit Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum. Visit the Museum’s Flickr page [...]
Delta Museum Airline Collectibles Show, Sale
Are you an aviation collector or always wanted to be? Bring your family and friends and come out to the 23rd Annual Atlanta Airline Collectibles Show and Sale. Hosted by the Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum, the event takes place Saturday, October 17 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. in Delta’s historic aircraft hangars. Fifty vendors will offer [...]