Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Parker Brothers Inc.
- Physical Description
- Card game in a red box with silver DC-3 and title of game on top. Contains 27 cards with blue-tinted picture of Ryan monoplane mailplane flying over countryside on rear, and 71 red-tinted pictures of same scene on rear (note: one red card is missing from number stated in instructions). Also contains eight page instruction booklet for the game.
- Summary
- "Aviation: The Air Mail Game"
- In 1929, Parker Brothers introduced "Aviation: The Air Mail Game" to exploit growing public interest in commercial aviation. The game challenged 2 to 4 players to deliver the mail to 12 cities between Boston and San Francisco. Red cards determined destinations, and blue cards determined flight conditions. Good weather sped up the mail; bad weather or engine problems delayed it.
- To capitalize on the public's infatuation with Charles Lindbergh, the airplane depicted on each card was his Spirit of St. Louis, even though the Spirit never flew the mail.
- Gift of Anne M. van der Linden and Gregory George-Adis
- Credit Line
- Gift of Anne M. van der Linden and Gregory Georgeadis.
- ca. 1939
- Inventory Number
- V20070134001
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MEMORABILIA-Popular Culture
- Materials
- Overall - card and paper
- Dimensions
- 3-D (Box): 14 x 10.2 x 2.5cm (5 1/2 x 4 x 1 in.)
- 2-D - Unframed (H x W) (Cards): 8.9 x 6.4cm (3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
- Exhibition
- America by Air
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_V20070134001
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9bb0c8327-c7e8-410c-9832-975cdb450f88
