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Transpacific flight--It's a small world by Pan American Airways / Lawler. – Vintage Print

Transpacific flight--It's a small world by Pan American Airways / Lawler., 19[38]. — vintage poster
Transpacific flight--It's a small world by Pan American Airways / Lawler., 19[38].. Vintage poster from the Aviation collection.

(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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This vintage poster of Transpacific flight--It's a small world by Pan American Airways / Lawler. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Pan American Airways' poster carries the line "It's a small world," which pitches the transpacific route as a way to bring distant places within easy reach. By 1938 the airline had been flying large flying boats across the Pacific for a few years, linking California with Hawaii and Asia, and this artwork by Lawler presents that crossing as glamorous and newly possible. Posters like it helped build the tourism market of the 1930s, when air travel was still novel and a Pacific crossing was among the most ambitious feats in commercial aviation.

Created / published19[38].
Medium1 print (poster) : color.
GenreTravel posters 1930-1940.Prints Color 1930-1940.
NotesPromotional goal: U.S. E5. 1938.
SubjectsPan American Airways Corporation--1930-1940. Airplanes--American--1930-1940. Tourism--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,148 × 1,453 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216434

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