K W Thompson - Pan American Airways - The Routes of the Flying Clipper Ships - c1935

by Vintage Map

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K W Thompson - Pan American Airways - The Routes of the Flying Clipper Ships - c1935

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Vintage Map

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Digital Art - Printed Map

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Superb pictorial map designed by artist K W Thompson for Pan American Airways (PAA) in the mid -1930s and depicting the routes of the airline's luxury "Flying Clipper Ships" to the Caribbean and Central & South America. The map is richly illustrated with pictorial vignettes & local scenes and extensively annotated with details about the history, culture and tourist attractions of the different countries & regions depicted. In the lower left, a smartly dressed American couple, no doubt representing PAA's archetypal customers in this golden era of 1930s luxury air travel, stride out purposefully to explore the precincts of one of the excitingly exotic destinations highlighted on the map.

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May 20th, 2021

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