Hawaii by clipper / Atherton. – Vintage Print
(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 Hawaii by clipper / Atherton., a vintage poster rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Hawaii by clipper / Atherton.
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Here the clipper, a long-range flying boat, is the main subject, paired with a hula dancer in the poster's foreground. Posters like this one were meant to sell the idea that Hawaii was reachable by air, a shift from the steamship voyages that had long defined travel to the islands. Clipper service across the Pacific began in the mid-1930s, and by the late 1940s it was a symbol of glamour and modern travel. The color lithograph, printed as a large poster around 1948, shows how travel advertising of that period combined aviation imagery with the imagery of island leisure.
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 107 x 71 cm. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [S.l. : s.n.], c1948. |
| Subjects | Hula dancing--Hawaii--1940-1950. Airplanes--American--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,104 × 5,116 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226603 |
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