<p><em>New Zealand via Pan American</em> poster, 1940<br /> Paul George Lawler<br /> Lithograph</p> <p>Pan American Airways operated its first successful passenger flight from the United States to New Zealand in 1940. This breakthrough allowed Americans to visit Australia and New Zealand and reduced the previous seventeen-day journey by steamship to four days by air.</p> <p>Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, POS – US .L387, no. 5</p>

New Zealand via Pan American poster, 1940
Paul George Lawler
Lithograph

Pan American Airways operated its first successful passenger flight from the United States to New Zealand in 1940. This breakthrough allowed Americans to visit Australia and New Zealand and reduced the previous seventeen-day journey by steamship to four days by air.

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, POS – US .L387, no. 5

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