Atlanta Airport/Hanger One collection, 1920-1980.

Hartsfield, William Berry

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William Berry Hartsfield (1890-1971) served as Mayor of Atlanta 1937-1962. He served on the Atlanta City Council from 1923-1928 and represented Fulton County in the state legislature. Hartsfield was Mayor of Atlanta in 1939 when the city hosted the premiere of Gone With the Wind, the movie based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell (Marsh). The film Gone With the Wind, based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell (Marsh), premiered in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 15, 1939. From the descript...

Faulkner, J. Ben

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Delta Air Lines

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Delta Airlines began in Macon, Georgia in 1924 as a crop dusting company called Huff Daland Dusters. The company moved to Monroe, Louisiana in 1925 and soon had the largest privately owned aircraft fleet in the world. In 1928 the company was renamed Delta Air Service. Passenger operations began in 1929, and in 1934, the company secured a contract to deliver mail on a southern route that stretched from Texas to South Carolina. In 1941, the company established its corporate headquarters in Atlanta...

William B. Hartsfield-Atlanta International Airport

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Eastern Air Lines, inc.

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Founded in 1927 as Pitcairn Aviation, this company changed its name in 1930 to Eastern Air Transport, and ca. 1934, to Eastern Air Lines, underwhich it was known until the company ceased operations in 1991; Dexter C. Martin (1897-1982) was an aviation pioneer and public official, of South Carolina. Eugene Earle Stone (fl. 1976) served as President of the Florence Ice and Fuel Company, Chairman of the Florence Airport Commission, and Chairman of the South Carolina Dairy Association. F...

Southern Airways, Inc.

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Republic Airlines

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Republic Airlines was a publicly-held, Minneapolis-based carrier providing air transportation to the traveling and shipping public. It was created in 1979 by the merger of North Central Airlines and Southern Airways; in 1980 it acquired Hughes Airwest. North Central Airlines was established in December, 1952, when Wisconsin Central Airlines officially changed its name to North Central Airlines. Wisconsin Central was founded in 1944 and served communities in Wisconsin, Illinois, uppe...