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Museum currently exhibits 3161 unique bags.

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Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 1977
Print or Image Color: Red and Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
This bag is Delta's first foray into international bag design. Features French and Spanish as well as English. The interesting thing is that French is printed first. Very unusual but cool.

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 1979
Print or Image Color: Red and Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Only the bottom of this bag differs from the 1982 version with the polite German (which is really a 1980 version that was still in use in 1982). The bottom actually says "7-79", so it was dated for your identification convenience. Apparently, some Germans felt that the bag's instructions weren't courteous enough. In response, Delta added the word "Bitte" (please) so that passengers felt respected when throwing up.

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 1980
Print or Image Color: Red and Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Moved English first, but kept the bag design reasonably similar. Added German.

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 1982
Print or Image Color: Red and Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
This bag slightly differs from its predecessor. Apparently, some Germans felt that the bag's instructions weren't courteous enough. In response, Delta added the word "Bitte" (please) so that passengers felt respected when throwing up. Note also that American Packaging changed its name to American Bag & Paper Corp.

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 1986
Print or Image Color: Red and Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Same, but some executive decided to dump the logo

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 1987
Received From: Mike Herrick
Print or Image Color: Red and Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Added Japanese!

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 1991
Print or Image Color: Red and Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Added Thai & a new logo

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 1992
Print or Image Color: White
Background / Bag Color: Gray
Radical color scheme change. Went to gray, which totally is unlike any other Delta innovation.

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 1996
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Small logo. "Air Lines" in a lighter blue.

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 1997
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
"Air Lines" in blue. Changed closing mechanism to peel away instead of twist tie

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 2000
Print or Image Color: Blue and Red
Background / Bag Color: White
For some unknown reason, Delta got sick of advertising that it was an airline and excised the words "Air Lines" from the bag.

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 2003
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
Another year, another bag. Tirelessly tweaking their design to attain barf bag perfection, Delta trims the budget by excising red, leaving the singular blue color gracing the bag. This is the 12th unique Delta design in the museum.

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 2003
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
I can't tell if this is just a registration error or it's a deliberate design, but the text on this bag is far lower than its counterpart of the same vintage.

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 2003
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
I'm all for bag diversity, but this is ridiculous. Delta unveils its 3rd bag variation of 2003, this time a plastic offering. Wisely, the instructions tell you to peel tab away 'gently', good advice if the bag is full.

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 2008
Received From: Bruce Kelly
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
After a 5 year hiatus, Delta changes its design again, this time to the Arnold-like "I'll be back", a double-entendre that functions as a seat holder. They also exhort you to "Feel Better".

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 2009
Received From: Janusz Tichoniuk
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
I'm not sure what the vintage of this bag is -- I'm calling it 2009 -- but it's identical to the 3rd variation of 2003 EXCEPT there's now a little flower on the front.

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 2004
Received From: David Shomper
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
This bag is identical to the 2003 Delta Plastic bags EXCEPT if you look at the logo, the lower half is now a pointy triangle instead of rounded parabola.

I never would have noticed it, but bagmeister David Shomper sure did!

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 2014
Print or Image Color: Blue
Background / Bag Color: White
A few years later, LK industries (?) decides that it needs to promote the fact that it's a registered trademark, even though it holds the same patent as before.

Delta Air Lines

Approximate Vintage: 2016
Print or Image Color: Navy
Background / Bag Color: White Plastic
Delta decides to re-brand itself as baby friendly by making the barf bag a "Baby Care" bag. It says:
  • Changing tables in lavatories
  • Never flush diapers or bag
  • Place diaper in bag and deposit in waste container


Fortunately, it's still for barfing as it says the following on the back: FEEL BETTER
  • Never flush bags
  • Use for motion sickness
  • Deposit bag in waste container

Denver Botanic Gardens Corpse Flower

Approximate Vintage: 2015
Received From: Jeanne Posthumus
Print or Image Color: Red
Background / Bag Color: White
This bag was created by the Denver Botanic Gardens to celebrate the blooming of its "Corpse Flower", which is supposed to smell so bad that it makes you sick. You can read about it here.

The bag features a drawing of the flower and says, "Weird Exotic Pungent"

THE AMORPHOPHALLUS TITANIUM CORPSE FLOWER DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS FIRST BLOOM 2015"