Typewritten form letter on from the Secretary of the Salinas, Calif. Chamber of Commerce announcing the first passenger and air mail flight out of Salinas by United Airlines. Details in the text include: Salinas' use of airplanes to also ship produce, promotion of Salinas' year-round agricultural growing season and climate advantages that would make it attractive to industry, the geographical advantages of Salinas' proximity to San Francisco and Los Angeles, and the general attractiveness of the area to "a satisfied labor market." Pictorial details of the letterhead include a sidebar of 6 green-tinted photos depicting: a cowboy on a bucking bronco at the California Rodeo Horse Fair and Stock Show, a worker tending fields of lettuce as the "lettuce capital of the world," beet fields, the "Guayule Rubber Development," a facility for magnesium production, and a dehydrated foods plant. The air mail envelope has a border of red and blue hash marks at the edges and a logo at the top that includes a photo of a United Air Lines plane and the words "Chamber of Commerce, Salinas, California, The Salad Bowl of the Nation, Ships 45,000 Carloads of Vegetables Annually." Other details include: an imprint of a U.S. Air Mail First Flight cachet stamp at the lower left of the envelope with a logo of a head of lettuce and the words Salinas California underneath it. The envelope has a ten-cent John Tyler U.S postage stamp.
