United's Super DC-8's add a new dimension of capacious comfort to jet travel. Nearly forty feet longer than their predecessors, the huge aircraft carry close to 200 passengers on United's nonstop coast-to-coast routes and between California and Hawaii.

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United's Super DC-8's add a new dimension of capacious comfort to jet travel. Nearly forty feet longer than their predecessors, the huge aircraft carry close to 200 passengers on United's nonstop coast-to-coast routes and between California and Hawaii.

Publisher: United Airlines

American

Medium/Technique Chromolithograph on card stock.

Dimensions Horizontal: 8.9 x 14 cm (3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive—Gift of Leonard A. Lauder

Accession Number2015.13179

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPostcards

DescriptionBack: divided. Mint.
Fly the friendly skies of United

ProvenanceBetween 1950 and 2015, acquired by Leonard A. Lauder, New York, from various postcard dealers in Europe and the United States; 2015, gift of Leonard A. Lauder to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 24, 2015)