El Paso Hilton Hotel advertising airmail cover
Front of the envelope:
VIA AIR MAIL
Illustration of the hotel
Air Conditioned
HILTON HOTEL
NEWEST * LARGEST * FINEST
EL PASO * TEXAS
Postmark: EL PASO JAN 7 6:30PM 1940 TEXAS
Stamp: US 1938 Airmail Eagle 6 Cents Scott #C23
Sender:
X.O. Pfeiffer
c/o American Airlines
El Paso, Texas
Addressed to:
Mr. Rutledge Simmons
c/o Henry Ginnel & Co.
15 Maiden Lane
New York, N.Y.
Back of the envelope flap:
HILTON HOTEL
EL PASO * TEXAS
In the Heart of the 80% Sunshine Belt
Back of the envelope:
From Coast to Coast
TRAVEL THE SOUTHERN ROUTE
SCENIC * ALL-PAVED * SNOW-FREE
AIR-COOLED STOPS
Illustrate map showing the route from San Francisco to New York with points of interest, numbered highways and cities including: Los Angeles, San Diego, El Centro, Phoenix, Grand Canyon, Lordsburg, Juarez, Juarez, El Paso, Kansas City, Rio Grande, Van Horn, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Pecos, Big Spring, Abilene, Fort Worth, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Texarkana, Little Rock, Shreveport, Atlanta, Memphis, St. Louis, Chicago, Nashville, Knoxville, Great Smoky Mt. National Park, Bristol, Shenandoah National Park, New Market, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Wilmington and Philadelphia; US 101, 99, 70, 80, 180, 54, 62, 290, 67, 11w, 11, 211, 1, 40, 13.
