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Half sheet This pictorial map is titled "B.O.A.C. World Air Routes: Eastern Hemisphere," a vintage airline travel poster created in 1949.
Key Details
Artist: Illustrated by E.O. Seymour, a postwar commercial artist known for his aviation travel posters.
Publisher: Published for the British Overseas Airways Corporation (B.O.A.C.), the British state-owned airline that operated from 1940 to 1974.
Design: The map was originally issued as a double-sided folding sheet, with the Eastern Hemisphere on one side and the Western Hemisphere on the reverse.
Features:
Illustrations: It features colorful vignettes of people in traditional dress, landmarks, local fauna, and regional industries.
Route Network: Red lines indicate air routes connecting London to key global hubs like Cairo, Karachi, Singapore, and Sydney.
Historical Context: National borders are omitted, emphasizing a world unified by air travel in the postwar era. Notable for its period is the absence of routes to the U.S.S.R..
Speedbird Logo: The stylized "Speedbird" emblem, designed by Theyre Lee-Elliott, is integrated into the decorative border. |
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