1971 Pan Am stewardess advertisement

This advertisement from 1971 features a spread of black-and-white photographs of Pan Am stewardess Ilona Zahn for Playboy magazine. Some of the photos show Ilona on duty and in uniform as a stewardess, while others depict what she does in her leisure time, such as laying on the beach in a bikini. The accompanying text uses Ilona and other Pan Am stewardesses as a way to entice men to fly on Pan Am, using suggestive language while also detailing the stewardesses' qualifications and skills.

Citation Information
J. Walter Thompson Company, "There are a lot of beautiful reasons for flying Pan Am," 1971, Digital Public Library of America, .
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Courtesy of Duke University Libraries via North Carolina Digital Heritage Center.

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