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Title: United Airlines' Stewardesses
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1930/05/15
Contributing Institution: Center for Sacramento History
Collection: Center for Sacramento History Photo Collection
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Description: United Airlines with the first "airline stewardesses" employed by the company were nurses in 1930. Ellen Church, who conceived the idea of using nurses as attendants is at the top left. The first uniform was a green wool suit with matching cape. Church was a nurse in San Francisco at the time.
Type: image
Identifier: 4962019A-B47C-4C60-B2CF-421449582105
1998/722/0007
Subject: United Air Lines
Church, Ellen

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