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University of Southern California Library of Aeronautical History George T. Cussen collection on aviation

Collection

Identifier: 0053

Abstract The collection consists of Cussen's personal scrapbook pages, books and photographs pertaining to the commercial aeronautic industry from the 1930s to the 1950s, and a collection of World War I and World War II war effort posters and maps. George Cussen worked the Santa Fe Railway for eight years before a brief stint at Maddux Air Lines in 1929. From 1932 to 1940, he worked for Transcontinental and Western Airlines as a traffic manager, alternating between Los Angeles and San Francisco...

Dates: 1918 - 1963

Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

USC Library of Aeronautical History Arthur Beggs collection on aviation

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 0051

Abstract

Aviation memorabilia, photographs, newspaper clippings; first day airmail covers (stamped envelopes). Arthur Beggs (USC graduate) was a pioneer of air transportation on West Coast. He was general sales manager for Western Air 1928-1935. In 1935 he became sales manager for American Airlines.

Dates: 1927 - 1970

Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

USC Library of Aeronautical History C. S. James collection on aviation

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 0056

Abstract

Photographs, correspondence, ephemera pertaining to the history of Western Air Lines (Western Air Express). Charles N. James (a.k.a. James James, Jimmy James) flew the first Air mail run with Fred Kelly from Salt Lake to LA in seven hours, in 1926. He was a pilot for Western Air Express and later Vice-President in charge of operations at Western Airlines (1938-1950). He then became Security Manager with Bendix West Coast Division.

Dates: 1918 - 1957

Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

USC Library of Aeronautical History Charles Hannah collection on aviation

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 0059

Abstract Correspondence, documents of Western Air Express; Hannah was a passenger agent at the San Francisco office of Western Air Express. WAE, later Western Airlines, was chosen in 1928 for a "model passenger" project founded by the Guggenheim Foundation to establish a passenger service line between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The collection is made up of the internal papers (tapes, and interoffice memos and dispatches) of San Francisco passenger office. The collection also contains a framed...

Dates: 1928 - 1930

Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections