Graduation portrait photograph of stewardess Patricia Grace Murphy

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A black-and-white, full-length portrait photograph of Delta Air Lines' first African American stewardess, Patricia Grace Murphy, upon her graduation from stewardess training in August 1966. Captured in front of a drawn curtain, Patricia Grace Murphy poses standing on a checkered floor. Her dark hair is pinned up below her cap and she wears a skirt suit uniform. On the reverse of the photograph in black ink is text that reads: [99050167422956-wod-0.

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