Wednesday, September 28, 2022 – WHEN SAILING TO DISTANT SHORES TOOK WEEKS
FROM THE ARCHIVES
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
THE 793rd EDITION
THE MAGNIFICENT
SHIPS CROSSING
THE OCEANS
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Cunard Line poster. “For safety and comfort take the old reliable Cunard Line. Established 1840. Sailing 4 times a week. For all European points. Between New York and Liverpool. P.H. Du Vernet, General Western Agent, North West Corner Clark and Randolph Streets, Chicago.”
Poster of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company liner Alcantara at Rio de Janeiro, by Kenneth Shoesmith
Alcantara et Asturias by Kenneth Shoesmith.jpg
Poster for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (Royal Mail Lines), advertising the liners Alcantara and Asturias
General Steam Navigation Compy. Amsterdam-London.jpg
Affiche: General Steam Navigation Compy. Amsterdam-London.
White Star Line, appel aux femmes lancé par le Canada. Affiche d’une entreprise d’expédition britannique invitan… – 35146258344.jpg
Title / Titre : White Star Line, Canada’s Call to Women. Poster from a British shipping company inviting women to move to the Canadian Prairies /
White Star Line passenger list Wellcome L0046615.jpg
The saloon passenger list of the White Star Line steamship ‘Britannic’ for its journey from New York to Liverpool, 27th October 1883.
Belgenland Red Star Line poster.jpg
Red Star Line poster of its flagship Belgenland, with art deco image by Henri Cassiers (1858–1944), and text in French
Holland-Amerika Lijn 1898.jpg
Jan van Beers, Hol.-Amerika Lijn via Boulogne s/Mer, 1898
Shipping poster, 1930s (6297424880).jpg
New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd, New Zealand line. R.M.S. Rangitata in Gaillard Cut, 1930s, Screenprint, 980 x 1253 mm, Printed Ephemera Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Reference: Eph-H-SHIP-1930s-01
Some of the most striking posters on the international scene in the twentieth century were those showing ships; the large flat surfaces lent themselves well to poster treatment. This one uses a comparatively subtle colour palette.
We think the date is likely to be the early 1930s, because of the style and because the R.M.S. Rangitata was launched in 1929.
Schnelldampfer Deutschland 1900.jpg
Plakat der Hamburg-Amerika Linie mit Schnelldampfer Deutschland
THE FIRST S.S.BELGENLAND SAILED FROM LIVERPOOL TO PHILADELPHIA ON AUGUST 1, 1900 WITH MY GRANDMOTHER AGE 12 ON BOARD, ARRIVING 13 DAYS LATER.
Belgenland 1878 dressed.jpg
The Red Star Line ship Belgenland, rigged as a schooner and dressed overall. She was launched in 1878, completed in 1879, renamed Venere in 1904 and scrapped in 1905.
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