A smart stewardess : full-length portrait



Photograph

01 Jan 1950

Photographed By Tyers, R. K. (Ray K.), 1919-

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This is a 1950s photograph showing a Malayan Airways stewardess who is dressed in her sky-blue jacket and skirt with a soft white blouse. Malayan Airways was founded in 1937 and was renamed Malaysia Airways after independence in 1963. Digitized from an album page containing 9 photographs described collectively as "Malayan Airways". Part of a compiled album, with a label : "PHOTOGRAPHS BY : R.K. TYERS. Staff STRAITS STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. SINGAPORE. Date of creation estimated. "Title devised by Library staff.


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All rights reserved. Lee Kip Lin and National Library Board, Singapore 2009.

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