THE LATEST Clipper Hall EXHIBITS
Brought to you by the Pan Am Historical Foundation Digital Library
"ATLANTIC CROSSINGS" (2024)
THE ATLANTIC CHALLENGE, JUAN TRIPPE'S VISION FOR AIR TRAVEL, PAN AM IN WORLD WAR TWO & A TRANSATLANTIC TRIUMPH
Ocean Challenge • A Vision Achieved • War Clouds • U.S. at War • Atlantic Triumph • Transatlantic Ads
FILMFEST FALL 2023 "PAN AM PRESENTS THE WORLD"
Films produced by Pan Am and screened at San Francisco Aeronautical Society's gala in November 2023, honoring Pan Am Historical Foundation Chairman Ed Trippe. Plus a brand new production of interest: "Staying Connected," with Ed Dover, Pan Am Flight Radio Officer and author of "The Long Way Home"!
FILMFEST Winter 2024: "PAN AM on the move"
Three original film productions by Pan American World Airways show the extent of Pan Am's reach around the globe from the earliest years to Pan Am's Global Era. A fourth film. "Pacific Passage," is a fond tribute to the trailblazing transpacific M-130 "China Clipper."
"great expectations" EXHIBIT (2023)
STORIES OF MOMENTOUS BEGINNINGS, FIRST STEPS TAKEN, AND FOUNDATION LAID DOWN, THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD
ALL WITH A PAN AM CONNECTION:
The Pan Am Building • SuperClipper • Advertising Pan Am • Pan Am 1932 • Archival Insights • Pan Am Theater
PAN AM BUILDING: WORLD'S CROSSROADS
Behind the scenes: The creation and construction of the Pan Am Building and its impact on New York City's skyline.
SUPER CLIPPER
An introduction to the B-314 flying boat: Juan Trippe's inspiration, and the people at Boeing who worked to launch the aircraft.
ADVERTISING PAN AM
Pan Am's iconic ads and a historical focus on Pan Am's promotional messaging in Latin America from Pan Am's early years to the Global Era.
PAN AM 1932
Stories of Pan Am's vital early development at the height of the Great Depression, from Eric Hobson's "90 Years Ago" series.
ARCHIVAL INSIGHTS
Updates on one of our proudest projects, the digitization and preservation of our growing collection of papers, objects, films and other media.
PAN AM THEATER
Excerpts from the newest digital additions and recently preserved media in the Pan Am Historical Foundation's film archive.
"Yes, we Americans stand on the threshold of the Jet Age — when not just single nations but the entire globe will become a neighborhood — when Tokyo to the West as well as London to the East will be figuratively just 'across the street.' "
Juan T. Trippe, June 23, 1960
