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.

Credit Line

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

Subjects

• Flight attendants--Malaysia--Malaya--Photographs
• Airplanes--Malaysia--Malaya--Photographs