CHRYSLER CORPORATION. BATTLEFRONT ARTISTS.

CHRYSLER CORPORATION. BATTLEFRONT ARTISTS.
Significant War Scenes by Battlefront Artists. 1941-1945. A collection of reflective pintings. [Detroit]: Chrysler Corporation, 1951 Oblong folio, 325 x 430mm. Sepia photographic frontispece of the pictures hanging in Chrysler's Corporate Headquarters, 16 full-page colored illustrations of famous battle scenes, most by artists who had fought at those engagements. Modern green morocco, watered-silk endpapers, original card case.

A fine edition celebrating Chrysler's Gallery of War Scenes, commissioned from 1945 using artists with wartime experience, and hung in their Corporate HQ in Detroit;
TOGETHER WITH: a collection of 21 pieces of ephemera and maps relating to World War II both European and Pacific Theaters, including: Ministry of Information. If the Invader Comes. London, War Office, 1940. Information Sheet. * Naha Se, Ryukyu-retto. USA: October 1944. A printed battle map of Okinawa, with aerial photographic version on verso, folded. * A 1944 rayon American Air Force flyers Chart for China, Japan and Central Pacific. 750 x 810mm. * A road map of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, London: war Office, 1942. 700 x 1080 mm.