Aug 07, 2002 - Sale 1941

Sale 1941 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 575
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
RADEBANGLY [UNITED AIR LINES.] 1939.
19 1/4x15 1/2 inches.
Condition A: mounted on board. Framed.
With the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco World's Fair on one side of the image and the New York World's Fair Trylon and Perisphere on the other, a United Airlines plane is making her way across a truncated map of the United States. Pictured is the Douglas DC-3 "Mainliner" (first put into service in 1937), which could seat 21 passengers and had a cruising speed of 185-205 mile per hour. Don Thomas illustrates an example of this image (not providing dimensions) with extra text in the image ("fastest-shortest-fair to fair / United Air Lines/ Mainliners") and two lines of text below the image which read "stopovers allowed at Yellowstone . . . Boulder Dam . . . Grand Canyon and other National Parks / Only United Mainliners link the East with Everywhere West". Airline p. 26 (var).