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Promotional film for Lear, Incorporated, produced by Norman Wright Productions (Hollywood, California) and narrated by Bob Cummings, circa 1960s. The footage opens with a dramatization of an astronaut piloting a futuristic spacecraft on a deep-space…

Photograph of a Cal-State Air Lines Handley Page H.P.137 Jetstream aircraft (tail number N12224) and a Learjet 25 aircraft (tail number N695LJ) in a hangar, circa 1960s.

Photograph of Senator Barry Goldwater, William P. Lear, and others walking past a Lockheed Lodestar aircraft, circa 1960s. Inscription on verso: "Learjet. EP_A."

Photograph of an Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-104A Camel aircraft, circa 1957.

Photographic group portrait of members of the Lear, Incorporated Board of Directors with a TWA aircraft, Geneva, Switzerland, circa 1956-1959. Inscription on verso: "Lear Inc. Board / Ed K. / [illegible], Golde, Phil G., I don't know, [illegible]."

Photograph of members of the Lear, Incorporated Board of Directors disembarking from an unidentified aircraft, Geneva, Switzerland, circa 1956-1959. Inscription on verso: "Directors of Lear Inc. arriving in Switzerland."

Photographic slide of William P. Lear with a car and Lockheed Lodestar aircraft, December 12, 1954.Inscription on slide: "Lear. 12-12-54."

Photographic transparency of a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, May 1954. The photo was taken on or near the day of the Lear Learstar's first flight.

Photograph of United Air Lines flight attendant Thelma Irene "Tim" McGraw and a chef holding a cake while aboard a Boeing Model 377 Stratocruiser aircraft, circa 1951. The cake commemorates a transpacific yacht race. A UAL memo and routing form is…

Photograph of a Ilyushin Il-18 aircraft in flight over a city, circa 1950s-1970s.