Here's my mini-tribute to NW.
I posted most of these nearly 7 years ago on this forum, but for those who missed them, here's some color magazine ads (and a few black & white) for Northwest/Northwest Orient Airlines from the 1940's and 1950's
The first shot at Truk was aimed in St. Paul
1944
Pioneers...Here's your Northwest Passage
1945
Weekend 'round the World
1947
Northwest Airlines
1950
It's a Small World...When You Fly Northwest
1950
Castle in the air.
1950
The sun never sets on Northwest Airlines.
1951
4 corners of the earth... only hours apart.
1952
East meets West... on the Orient Express.
1952
Finest Thing on Wings
1952
All the way...to all the Orient.
1953
Fifth Avenue to Fujiyama... in 2305 minutes.
1953
Sunny side up!
1953
Two-story penthouse... with wings.
1953
A few steps that save you 1756 miles.
1954
Discover America's exciting new vacation-land. A day away on the Orient Express.
1954
Go Northwest, young man.
1954
High... Wide... and Handome.
1954
Where are you going my pretty maids?
1954
America's Newest Vacationland - be there tomorrow!
1954
The above ads are from a website where there are literally hundreds of old ads to browse. It's a project of Duke University. Here is some information from their website:
The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University.
Link to main page
Once there, you can click on browse, and then narrow your search by company.
Here's
the link for all 70 NW ads.