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Skelly Oil Company
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Pictorial map of the United States. Pictures the characters from the radio show "Captain Midnight flight patrol" on upper panel and planes from the active airlines of the time on left and right panels. Shows state boundaries, major cities, airline routes, etc. Includes legend. Date estimated.
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[Boehmer, Ed., United Airlines]
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Date estimated. Pictorial color map on sheet 43x55.5, folded to self cover 22x14. "ED BOEHMER" is printed in white near the bottom of the map. Shows United Air Lines certificated routes, routes applied for, connecting air lines' routes and other air lines' routes. Provides and overview of map routes, cities, parks, industry, agriculture, recreational activities, etc. On verso: cover title and promotional and informational text: Finest meals aloft, with full color illustration of a United Airlines stewardess with a scrumptious looking tray of food, and United's four engined mainliners, with views of United Air Lines two engine prop plane in flight, passengers deplaning United 4 engine mainliner.
Author
[Boehmer, Ed., United Airlines]
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Date estimated. Pictorial color map on sheet 43x55.5, folded to self cover 22x14. "ED BOEHMER" is printed in white near the bottom of the map. Shows United Air Lines certificated routes, routes applied for, connecting air lines' routes and other air lines' routes. Provides and overview of map routes, cities, parks, industry, agriculture, recreational activities, etc. On verso: cover title and promotional and informational text: Finest meals aloft, with full color illustration of a United Airlines stewardess with a scrumptious looking tray of food, and United's four engined mainliners, with views of United Air Lines two engine prop plane in flight, passengers deplaning United 4 engine mainliner.
Author
[Boehmer, Ed., United Airlines]
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Date estimated. Pictorial color map on sheet 43x55.5, folded to self cover 22x14. "ED BOEHMER" is printed in white near the bottom of the map. Shows United Air Lines certificated routes, routes applied for, connecting air lines' routes and other air lines' routes. Provides and overview of map routes, cities, parks, industry, agriculture, recreational activities, etc. On verso: cover title and promotional and informational text: Finest meals aloft, with full color illustration of a United Airlines stewardess with a scrumptious looking tray of food, and United's four engined mainliners, with views of United Air Lines two engine prop plane in flight, passengers deplaning United 4 engine mainliner.
Author
Pan American Airways Corporation
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Date estimated. Pictorial promotional map showing the area from San Francisco to a little south of Buenos Aires, advertising Pan-American Airlines air service throughout the Americas. Shows pictographs indicating tourist attractions, agriculture, wildlife, mines, etc. Relief shown pictorially. Includes an overview of the history and the importance of the major cities in Central America, South America and the Caribbean. The flying clipper ship routes were flown from 1931 to 1946. The flags of the nations of the Americas appear along the bottom of the map.
Author
Global Map Company
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Label on the back of the map gives the purpose of the map and directions on its use. Population figures and square mileage is given for continents, countries, oceans, seas and bays.
Author
Global Map Company
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Map in full color. Two rotating wheels move in conjunction to show airline and steamship distances.
Author
Global Map Company
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Cover shows planes and encourages the user to "See the world as flying men see it..."
Author
[Thompson, Kenneth W., Pan American Airways Corporation]
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Pictorial map of North and South America, on sheet 55x43. Covers from San Francisco to south of Buenos Aires. showing the routes of Pan American Airways "Flying Clipper Ship" routes, an commercial airline service in operation from 1931 to 1946. The fleet began in 1931 with routes between the U.S. and the Caribbean and South America, and expanded to flights across the Pacific after November 1935, which left from San Francisco. The map decorated with pictorial representations of the people, products and places with which the air service facilitated trade, and a row of flags of the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean forming a border at the bottom. Air routes are marked with heavy brown lines and black dots for the cities served. Around the coastlines are historical notes related to European exploration and colonization. A cartouche at the top bears the title within the form of a partially unrolled chart, superimposed over a pale blue Pan American Airways logo. Relief shown pictorially and by spot heights. On verso text and 2 views of the clippers that pioneered the airways over the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans "Over sea", and overland airways "Over land".
Author
[Thompson, Kenneth W., Pan American Airways Corporation]
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Pictorial map of North and South America, on sheet 55x43. Covers from San Francisco to south of Buenos Aires. showing the routes of Pan American Airways "Flying Clipper Ship" routes, an commercial airline service in operation from 1931 to 1946. The fleet began in 1931 with routes between the U.S. and the Caribbean and South America, and expanded to flights across the Pacific after November 1935, which left from San Francisco. The map decorated with pictorial representations of the people, products and places with which the air service facilitated trade, and a row of flags of the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean forming a border at the bottom. Air routes are marked with heavy brown lines and black dots for the cities served. Around the coastlines are historical notes related to European exploration and colonization. A cartouche at the top bears the title within the form of a partially unrolled chart, superimposed over a pale blue Pan American Airways logo. Relief shown pictorially and by spot heights. On verso text and 2 views of the clippers that pioneered the airways over the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans "Over sea", and overland airways "Over land".
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