Shirley Kubik TWA Hostess collection

This collection consists of material related to Shirley Kubik (1934-2023) and her career as a hostess with Trans World Airlines (TWA) from 1957-1958. The material was gathered by Kubik in the course of her employment.

Personal papers includes correspondence, recruiting and training material, performance reviews and memoranda relaying positive comments from passengers, and flight log. These logs, found here in both bound and loose formats, include date, flight and airplane numbers, crew names, destination and origin locations, arrival and departure times, and other notes about the flights on which Kubik worked.

Also contained in the collection is Kubik's TWA luggage tag and parking pass, and two of her TWA hostess uniform hats. There is some additional TWA ephemera, as well as some menus from restaurants and nightclubs Kubik visited during her career.

Other material includes twenty-five (25) black-and-white and six (6) color photographs of Kubik and her fellow airline personnel, along with magazine and newspaper clippings which provide some context for Kubik's experience as an air hostess in the 1950s.