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1. Airborne Freight Corporation Truck on Bayshore Freeway, August 1960 - Negative

   Airborne Freight Corporation Truck on Bayshore Freeway, August 1960. Black and white negative of an Airborne Freight Corporation truck driving along the Bayshore Freeway (Highway 101). The image was captured from the Peninsula Avenue overpass in San Mateo. There are several other vehicles driving on the highway. In the background are powerlines and the San Francisco Bay. Part of a series.

   Record Type: Photo

   
2. Flower Shipment From Australia at SFO, 1960 - Negative

   Flower Shipment From Australia at SFO, 1960. Black and white negative of an orchid shipment from Austrialia arriving at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The image shows a woman holding open a large box filled with orchids. The woman sits on a pallet that is stacked high with more boxes of orchids. The boxes read "FROM... G. Mitchell / KOGARAH / N.S.W. AUSTRALIA." The pallet is being raised in the air by a forklift that is partially ...

   Record Type: Photo

   
3. Flower Shipment from SFO, 1961 - Negative

   Flower Shipment from SFO, 1961. Black and white negative shows two workers with a flower shipment on an American Airlines airplane at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Boxes of flowers are stacked on a raised forklift, with the boxes just outside of the airplane's cargo hold. "AIRfreight" is painted on the side of the airplane under the cockpit. A man in work clothes operates the forklift from the tarmac below. Next to him is a secon...

   Record Type: Photo

   
4. Jim McPherson and Pan-American Plane, 1960 - Negative

   Jim McPherson and Pan-American Plane, 1960. Black and white negative of Jim McPherson, Chief Executive Officer of Airborne Freight Corporation. McPherson stands on a grassy field next to a tarmac at San Francisco International Airport. He wears a dark suit and has his arms folded across his chest. A Pan-American World Airways airplane is landing in the background. Part of a series.

   Record Type: Photo

   
5. SFO Maintenance and General Aviation Area, 1960 - Negative

   SFO Maintenance and General Aviation Area, 1960. Black and white negative shows an aerial view of the maintenance area at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) looking towards the southwest of airport. The main terminal appears in the background. There are two buildings in the left of the image, Cargo Buildings No. 2 and 3. In the center of the image is a parking lot full of cars and an Airborne Freight Corporation truck. There are several ai...

   Record Type: Photo

   
6. Shipping Flowers from San Mateo County, October 1961 - Negative

   Shipping Flowers from San Mateo County, October 1961. Black and white negative of flowers being packed for shipment by Airborne Freight Corporation at Western Wholesale Florist in San Mateo, California. The unpacked flowers sit in vases in a large room with air conditioning units overhead. Six workers pack the flowers into boxes on a metal table on the far side of the room.

   Record Type: Photo