Orient Line Series-General Folder #1

Archive

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Maritime Museum of San Diego

Name/Title

Orient Line Series-General Folder #1

Entry/Object ID

K0001.111.01

Scope and Content

This folder consists of seven items: 1. Our Ship, Your Home, Orient Line: Multi-page stapled blue booklet, dated 1959. Provides general information about cruising aboard Orient Line vessels. 2. Orient Line, Ships and Services, To Australia, USA, Canada, via Mediterranean Suez Canal, Pacific and Panama: Multi-page stapled, part-color, glossy-cover booklet. Undated, ca. 1950s. Pictorial overview of the cruising experience. Provides photos of accommodations, amenities and shipboard activities. 3. Orient Line: Single page, folded, color-cover brochure. Undated, ca. 1950s. Pictorial overview of the fleet's ships. Provides route information and fleet statistics. 4.Orient Line Tourist Classes: Multi-page color cover booklet. Dated 1955. Provides port information and overview of the cruising lifestyle. Very art-heavy design, every-other page features line-drawn, "doodle-type" illustrations of nautical motifs. 5. England-Australia 1954 Orient Line Pacific Service, and Connecting Sailings, Issued Nov. 1954: Small, single-page folded leaflet detailing sailing dates between England and Australia. 6. Orient Line Pacific Service: Multi-page, color cover, stapled booklet. Undated, ca. 1950s. Features photos of shipboard activities, ports, vessel underway and accommodations. Text provides general information and port entry regulation information. 7. Marco Polo Specifications: Single, bicolor page. Undated, ca. 1990s. Specification sheet for a vessel, the Marco Polo, formerly known as Alexandr Pushkin, which was actually operated by a separate "Orient Line", which operated only during the 1990s.

Collection

Kingsbury Maritime Ephemera Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Folder, File

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Container, Document

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Writing Accessories

Nomenclature Class

Written Communication T&E

Nomenclature Category

Category 06: Tools & Equipment for Communication

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

May 23, 2011