Yosemite. United Air Lines

Item

A 1940s travel poster showing a man and woman standing on a cliff overlooking Yosemite Valley, with granite cliffs and a forest below. A United Air Lines plane flies above across a blue sky.
Title
Yosemite. United Air Lines
Description
A man and woman on a cliff overlook Yosemite Valley as a United Air Lines plane flies above
Artist
Joseph Fehér
Date
1945
Commissioning Organization
United Air Lines
Medium
Color lithograph poster
Destination
Yosemite Valley, California
Source Archive
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
Rights
No known restrictions
Imagined Tourist
A traveler using a plane, not a hiker or laborer
What the Poster Promises
Promise: Beautiful wilderness is now reachable, since the plane does the hard travel
Tone: Majestic, serene
What Is Visible
Landscape: Mountain valley, granite cliffs, forest
Transportation: Airplane
People: Two tourists, who are dwarfed by the landscape. There are no rangers, or any Ahwahneechee presence
Symbols: Airplane, cliff viewing point, evergreen forest
Item sets
Travel Posters
Site pages
Inside & Outside the Frame
Media
A 1940s travel poster showing a man and woman standing on a cliff overlooking Yosemite Valley, with granite cliffs and a forest below. A United Air Lines plane flies above across a blue sky.yosemite.jpg