United Airlines: A Gay Geography of the Main Line Airway [front & back cover]
- Title:
- United Airlines: A Gay Geography of the Main Line Airway [front & back cover]
- Alternate Title:
- United Airlines: A Gay Geography of the Main Line Airway
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Taylor, Ruth
- Date:
- 1938
- Posted Date:
- 2017-04-14
- ID Number:
- 2142.01
- Collection Number:
- 8548
- File Name:
- PJM_2142_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1920 - 1939
- Subject:
- Advertising & Promotion
Pictorial - Measurement:
- 27 x 25 page (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- This is the cover of a long, strip-map promotional brochure produced by the artist Ruth Taylor for United Airlines in about 1938. The cover page is followed by a two-page overview of the airline's route across the country, "Flying United's Main Line Airway," explaining how carefully the aircraft (likely a DC-3 "Mainliner") has been inspected and serviced as well as the skill and competence of the crew and the expert supporting technicians. That is followed in turn by a series of detailed route maps from coast to coast. Each map is packed with numerous illustrations, from the orchards and cowboys of California's Central Valley to the top hatted, cigar-chewing plutocrat of Wall Street. Passengers are "invited to keep this 'Gay Geography' as a souvenir of your flight."
Ruth Taylor White (Ruth Taylor before and after her marriage) was well known for the cartoon-figure pictorial maps she produced from the late 1920s into the 1940s. She "depicted a nation and a world where cheerful characters flocked by railway, auto-mobile, ship and airplane to visit picturesque land-scapes full of colourful natives, iconic architecture and natural wonders. She wanted, as she put it, to ‘make geography painless’ for her viewers." Griffin 2017, 245. For other examples of her work in the collection, Search > Ruth Taylor.
Date is estimated.
For further information on the Collector’s Notes and a Feedback/Contact Link, see https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/about-collection-personal-statement and https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/feedback-and-contact - Source:
- United Airlines. [1938]. A Gay Geography of the Main Line Airway.
- Cite As:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography, #8548. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.