Date of Original
1930/1990

Subject
Eastern Air Lines
Industrial relations
Labor unions
Air Line Pilots Association
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

People
Usery, W. J., Jr., 1923-2016
Borman, Frank, 1928 March 14-
Ashlock, James R., 1932-
Hamilton, Martha McNeil

Location
Bahamas, 25.04082, -77.37122
Bermuda Islands, Bermuda Island
Canada, Québec, Montréal, 45.50884, -73.58781
Caribbean, 20.38583, -72.33398
Jamaica, 18.16667, -77.25
Mexico, 23.634501, -102.552784
Mexico, Acapulco, 16.8680495, -99.8940182
Mexico, Mexico City, 19.432608, -99.133208
Puerto Rico, 18.22141715, -66.4132818505648
Puerto Rico, San Juan County, San Juan, 18.46633, -66.10572
United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, California, City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco, 37.77493, -122.41942
United States, California, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, 34.05223, -118.24368
United States, California, Los Angeles County, Santa Monica, 34.01949, -118.49138
United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
United States, Florida, 28.75054, -82.5001
United States, Florida, Broward County, Fort Lauderdale, 26.12231, -80.14338
United States, Florida, Duval County, Jacksonville, 30.33218, -81.65565
United States, Florida, Escambia County, Pensacola, 30.42131, -87.21691
United States, Florida, Hillsborough County, Tampa, 27.94752, -82.45843
United States, Florida, Miami-Dade County, Miami, 25.77427, -80.19366
United States, Florida, Orange County, Orlando, 28.53834, -81.37924
United States, Florida, Pinellas County, Saint Petersburg, 27.77086, -82.67927
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Atlanta Metropolitan Area, 33.8498, 84.4383
United States, Georgia, Atlanta, Hunter Street, 33.779068, -84.295553
United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
United States, Georgia, Clayton County, 33.54189, -84.35769
United States, Georgia, Cobb County, Austell, 33.81261, -84.63438
United States, Georgia, DeKalb County, Stone Mountain, 33.80816, -84.1702
United States, Georgia, Floyd County, Rome, 34.25704, -85.16467
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Alabama Street, 33.751816, -84.388998
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Auburn Avenue, 33.755509, -84.376596
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Peachtree Street, 33.798452, -84.3910732
United States, Georgia, Pickens County, 34.46432, -84.46564
United States, Georgia, Pickens County, Marblehill, 34.43065, -84.33687
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 41.85003, -87.65005
United States, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 38.25424, -85.75941
United States, Louisiana, Orleans Parish, New Orleans, 29.95465, -90.07507
United States, Maryland, City of Baltimore, 39.29038, -76.61219
United States, Massachusetts, Suffolk County, Boston, 42.35843, -71.05977
United States, Missouri, City of Saint Louis, St. Louis, 38.62727, -90.19789
United States, Nebraska, Douglas County, Omaha, 41.25626, -95.94043
United States, Nevada, Clark County, Las Vegas, 36.17497, -115.13722
United States, New Jersey, Essex County, Newark, 40.73566, -74.17237
United States, New York, Monroe County, Rochester, 43.15478, -77.61556
United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729
United States, New York, New York County, New York, Lower Manhattan, 40.710314600000004, -74.00496498730675
United States, North Carolina, 35.50069, -80.00032
United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
United States, North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, 35.22709, -80.84313
United States, North Carolina, Wake County, Raleigh-Durham, 35.880361449999995, -78.78723821716514
United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
United States, Texas, 31.25044, -99.25061
United States, Texas, Dallas County, Dallas, 32.78306, -96.80667
United States, Texas, Harris County, Houston, 29.76328, -95.36327
United States, Texas, Tarrant County, Fort Worth, 32.72541, -97.32085
United States, Texas, Travis County, Austin, 30.26715, -97.74306
United States, Virginia, City of Richmond, 37.55376, -77.46026
United States, Washington, King County, Seattle, 47.60621, -122.33207

Medium
corporation records
records (documents)

Type
Still Image, Text

Description
The Eastern Air Lines Digital Collection brings together content that represents different aspects of Eastern's legendary history: labor, management, public relations, mediation, corporate culture, marketing, media coverage, and operations. The Digital Collection includes documentation from the following collections; in some cases only selected items from the collection were digitized, in others, the entire collection.
Collective bargaining and mediation information taken from the Bill Usery papers. Usery, a former U. S. Secretary of Labor, was a mediator for Eastern in the 1980s.
The Frank Borman papers chronicle through correspondence his work as the president of Eastern Air Lines in the late 1970s and 1980s
The Jim Ashlock collection includes Eastern's annual reports, coverage of Eastern's dissolution, Eastern television ads, and information about daily operations during the strike; Ashlock was a public relations specialist at Eastern from 1966-1991
Martha Hamilton, a Washington Post reporter who donated her notebooks, newsclippings, and other items related to her coverage of Eastern 1989-1991
Adrienne Cohen, copy writer and advertising executive, donated copies of her ad work for Eastern which features radio and print ads, including "The Wings of Man" radio commercial series featuring Orson Welles from the early 1970s
The records of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, who represented the ground crew at Eastern, include recordings of television coverage of the strike, collective bargaining agreements, and photographs of daily operations at various locals
The papers of John Chaknis, a member of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), who collected materials related to ALPA's sympathy strike with the Machinists
Carolyn Lee Wills, former director of the Eastern Airlines' Southern Region Public Relations Office, collected and donated press releases, photographs, newsletters, destination files, operations information, and a formidable collection of artifacts from Eastern Air Lines.

Metadata URL
http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/eastern

Language
eng

Original Collection
Address books
Admission tickets
Annual reports
Aprons (protective wear)
Artifacts
Audiocassettes
Audiotapes
Badges
Ball-point pens
Balls (object genres)
Baseballs (ball)
Basketballs (balls)
Black-and-white negatives
Black-and-white photographs
Black-and-white slides
Books
Business cards
Buttons (information artifacts)
Card files
Cartoons (humorous images)
Cases (containers)
Certificates
Children's books
Clippings (information artifacts)
Clips (fasteners)
Color photographs
Color slides
Combs (grooming tools)
Commemorative prints
Commercial correspondence
Contact sheets
Correspondence
Cushions
Daybooks
Digital moving image formats
Drafts (documents)
Drawings (visual works)
Editorial cartoons
Envelopes
Ephemera
Files (document groups)
Fliers (printed matter)
Graphite pencils
Hats
House organs
Information artifacts
Key rings
Legal documents
Letterheads
Long-playing records
Luggage tags
Magnifiers (lenses)
Membership cards
Minutes (administrative records)
Models (representations)
Newsletters
Notebooks
Notes
Official reports
Oil paintings (visual works)
Pamphlets
Paperweights
Pennants
Photographs
Picket signs
Pins (jewelry)
Plaques (flat objects)
Playing cards
Political cartoons
Ponchos
Pouches
Press releases
Print advertising
Proclamations
Purses (ladies' accessories)
Quarterly reports
Résumés (personnel records)
Recipes
Resolutions (administrative records)
Rosters
Rulers (measuring devices)
Schoolbags
Scrapbooks
Signs
Sketches
Speeches (documents)
Stationery
Surveys (documents)
Sweat shirts
Testimonies
Toys (recreational artifacts)
Transcripts
T-shirts
VHS (TM)
Videotapes
Visors (costume components)

Holding Institution
Georgia State University. Special Collections

Rights