Margarita Lora's Passenger Ticket, 1961
date: label: date made
content: November 1960
name: label: maker
content: Pan American Airlines
notes: label: Description
content: After the Cuban Revolution, many parents feared for their children's futures under communism. This Pan American passenger ticket was used by eight year old Margarita Lora when she left Cuba for Miami, Florida on August 14, 1961 as part of Operation Pedro Pan, a program that airlifted over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children from Havana to the United States between 1960 and 1962.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: Associated Place
content: Cuba: La Habana, Havana
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Florida, Miami
topic: label: related event
content: Cold War
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Ethnic
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content: Many Voices, One Nation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Margarita Lora
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0046.04
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0046.04
label: accession number
content: 2015.0046
objectType: label: Object Name
content: passenger ticket
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 7 11/16 in; 8.255 cm x 19.558 cm