Nach Südamerika in 3 tagen! Hamburg-Amerika Linie / O. Anton, Hamburg. – Historic Reproduction
![Nach Südamerika in 3 tagen! Hamburg-Amerika Linie / O. Anton, Hamburg., Berlin : Erasmusdruck, [1937] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/54/542f41deddf6-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Nach Südamerika in 3 tagen! Hamburg-Amerika Linie / O. Anton, Hamburg., a vintage poster rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Nach Südamerika in 3 tagen! Hamburg-Amerika Linie / O. Anton, Hamburg.
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Under its promise of "Nach Südamerika in 3 Tagen!" ("To South America in 3 days!"), this 1930s German poster advertises a flight, not a steamship crossing. The Graf Zeppelin, the rigid airship built by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin, carried paying passengers on scheduled South Atlantic runs from 1934, and the Hamburg-America Line, a major shipping company, sold the tickets. Crossings by sea to Brazil took about two weeks, so the airship's speed was the selling point. The Nazi government promoted the Zeppelin as a symbol of German engineering, which gives the poster its political undertone as well as its commercial purpose.
| Created / published | Berlin : Erasmusdruck, [1937] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 83 x 61 cm. |
| Genre | Travel posters German 1930-1940.Lithographs Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Generalvertretung des Luftschiffbau Zeppelin. Title from item. |
| Subjects | Graf Zeppelin (Airship). Hamburg-American Line--1930-1940. Travel--1930-1940. Airships--German--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,987 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-224973 |
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