• Hand-drawn map of the Pacific Ocean, East Asia, and North American. Titled in red in the upper right corner "North to the Orient, 1931" A solid red line traces a path from New York through Nome, Alaska, and the Arctic Circle to Hankow. A dotted red line below traces a path from San Francisco to Manila via the Pacific.
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    Mercator map projection by R.E.G. Davies showing the route of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's 1931 flight from New York to China with a comparison of Pan American Airways’ 1935 Pacific route below.

  • Hand-drawn map of the Pacific Ocean, East Asia, and North American. Titled in red in the upper right corner "North to the Orient, 1931" A solid red line traces a path from New York through Nome, Alaska, and the Arctic Circle to Hankow. A dotted red line below traces a path from San Francisco to Manila via the Pacific.

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