Oct 25, 2018 - Sale 2490

Sale 2490 - Lot 121

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
PAUL GEORGE LAWLER (DATES UNKNOWN) SKYWAY TO INCA LAND / IT'S A SMALL WORLD BY PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS. 1938.
41x27 inches, 104x68 1/2 cm.
Condition B+: extensive airbrushing and minor stains in margins.
One in a series of exotic destination posters designed by Lawler, depicting the range of Pan Am's routes, and illustrating their aircraft, here a Panagra DC-2. "By the early 1930s Pan American Airways was expanding at an aggressive pace that would eventually make it the world's dominant international airline. It blanketed Central and South America with a network of air routes to serve the considerable business interests of U.S. multinational companies in the southern Hemisphere with a mixed fleet of flying boats and land planes" (Airways p. 48). Pan Am p. 63 (var), Airways p. 54.