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This collection consists of a scrapbook documenting Marian Stewart Honeyman's flight with St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line on January 19, 1914.
The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line began the first scheduled passenger service on January 1, 1914 with pilot Antony H. "Tony" Jannus flying a Benoist Type XIV. Marian Stewart, daughter of John K. Stewart, founder and President of Stewart Manufacturing Company and Stewart-Warner Speedometer Company, took a flight on January 19, 1914 with Jannus, along with her mother Mrs. J. K. Stewart and a Mrs. G. E. Baxter. As of August 1976, Mrs. Marian Stewart Honeyman was the oldest living female commercial flight passenger in the United States.
NASM.XXXX.0851
Honeyman, Marian Stewart
1914-1964
bulk 1914
Marian Stewart Honeyman, Gift, 1976, NASM.XXXX.0851.
0.36 Cubic feet (1 flatbox)
National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of a clothbound scrapbook, with leather spine, sized 15-3/8 x 11-5/8 inches. On the spine, embossed in gold, "My First Flight - Marian Stewart Honeyman - 1914." The scrapbook contains eleven pages, seven of which contain material on one side. The contents include seven black and white photographs of various sizes, with captions, and three newspaper clippings regarding the flight.
Collection is in original order.
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Marian Stewart Honeyman Scrapbook, NASM.XXXX.0851 National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line
Benoist Type XIV
Aeronautics
Aeronautics, Commercial
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Scrapbooks