A trip to Hawaii sparked Dr. Cheryl Krasnick Warsh’s research journey
Dr. Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, a Vancouver Island University History Professor, is examining the iconography of travel destinations in transportation advertising from the 19th to the 21st centuries.
It all started in Hawaii when she picked up retro-travel postcards and noted the tension of the image.
“I was at a conference in Hawaii and picked up some retro travel postcards, including one for Canadian Pacific Air Lines, and was intrigued by the visual tension. The happy beachgoers and hula dancers in the foreground, and the airplane moving into the shot from the northwest,” said Warsh. “Given the history of European and American imperialist incursions into…
