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Eastern Air Lines Collection

Correspondence, memorabilia, and records highlighting labor, management, public relations, mediation, corporate culture, marketing, media coverage, and operations at Eastern Air Lines between 1905 and 2010.

More About This Collection

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

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)