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Pan American "Paris - Europe" travel poster is a vintage advertising piece created by the American artist William Linzee Prescott in the 1950s.
Poster Details
Artist: William Linzee Prescott (1917-1981), a prominent American painter, muralist, and caricaturist.
Airline: Pan American World Airways (Pan Am).
Year: Circa 1950s.
Theme: The poster promotes Pan Am's air service between the US and Paris/Europe, emphasizing how popular the route is.
Illustration: The humorous illustration provides an aerial view of Paris featuring landmarks like the Eiffel Tower. In the foreground, a diverse crowd of characters (including a cowboy, a nun, a priest, and figures resembling Popeye and Madeline) are lined up outside a Pan Am office.
Dialogue: A gendarme is shown talking to a street vendor, with text in a mix of French and English that reads: "But every day c'est comme ca! Eet mus' be a very marvelous airline!". The text was aimed at American tourists, making the poster widely understood. |
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