Portrait photograph of stewardess Patricia Grace Murphy

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A black-and-white, bust-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 studio, Patricia Grace Murphy poses with her long dark hair pinned up below her knit cap. She wears a dark blazer with her Delta Air Lines stewardess wings insignia a pins at her top left chest, and a light-colored blouse. On the reverse of the photograph in black ink is an inscription that reads: [PATRICIA GRACE MURPHY / 8-1966].

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