"Postwar Town, U.S.A. Showing Typical Uses for Air Express in Any Community",

This unusual pictorial map was created for Railway Express Agency, Inc., who represent "the AIRLINES of the United States." Introductory text on verso states "this is probably a different kind of map you never saw before. It doesn’t show you how to go anywhere. It isn’t even a map of any real town.” Instead, it presents a fictional town with the many ways air express can help businesses and residents. Benefits to local business are described in detail with headers including "Meeting and Beating Deadlines," "World Trader - By Air," "Relief For Printer Pressure" and more. Self-folding into pictorial wrappers (4.0 x 8.9"). We found only three locations for this map on OCLC.

References: Rumsey #11059.

Condition: A

Issued folding with just a few tiny splits at the fold junctions. A short edge tear is confined to the right blank margin.