album: binding + details including binder's ticket
Name/Title
Album, photo: 42 B+W photos of merchant & passenger vessels (some Holland America Line), n.d., ca. 1935-1950.
Entry/Object ID
2014.046.0104
Scope and Content
Photograph album with 42 black-and-white photographs of merchant and passenger vessels (some Holland America Line), no date, circa 1935-1950.
Photographer not known. Creator of album and purpose not indicated.
Quarter black leather binding with 32 leaves; tissue guards; binder's ticket on last leaf. Marbled endpapers. No spine titling or written content.
Single photo mounted on front endleaf; 41 prints (Velox paper) mounted one to opposing leaves with photo corner mounts; 2-5/16" to 2-3/8" square (reverse of five checked and no identification or text found on them.)
Most are vessels seen in port or a harbor. Research of locations or ships not
Provenance: Collection of Adriaan P.L. Roggeveen.
He was the former Operations Manager of Holland America operations in Hoboken, retiring in 1953 and living on the New Jersey coast. He was one of five generations of his family that had worked for Holland America in the U.S. and Holland.
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Ships
Business & Commerce
Transportation
Ceremonies
ocean liners
Acquisition
Accession
2014.046
Source or Donor
Roggeveen, Bob
Acquisition Method
Gift
Credit Line
Adriaan P.L Roggeveen Collection. Gift of Robert Roggeveen.
