White Star Line Series- General Folder

Name/Title

White Star Line Series- General Folder

Entry/Object ID

K0001.161.01

Scope and Content

This folder consists of eight items: 1. Membership Meeting, "Titanic" San Diego Maritime Museum: Single, bicolor page cardstock page. Dated 1998. Announces seminar by Kit Bonner about RMS Titanic. 2. Untitled: Small photograph clipped from brochure. Dated 1932. Historical photograph of the vessel SS Majestic under tow. 3. Membership Meeting, "Titanic" San Diego Maritime Museum: Identical item to item #1 of this folder 4. To and From Scotland by White Star Line Canadian Service: Single, folded color-cover page. Undated, ca. 1920s. Features information about transatlantic crossings between Scotland and Canada aboard the SS Laurentic, the SS Doric and the SS Regina. Photos depict common areas for each of the three passenger classes. Text describes sailing experience. Cover features color grahic depicting a highland dancer. 5. To Europe on the Homerica in the New Tourist Third Cabin: Multi-page stapled, color-cover, tissue-paper brochure. Dated Feb. 1930. Deck plans for the vessel Homeric, featuring port information and photos of places of interest at ports of call. Deck plans feature photos of third, "tourist cabin" passenger class accommodations. Text describes the emergence of a new, educated "third class" of potential passengers. 6. White Star Line Canadian Service, Views of Cabin Accommodation: Multi-page stapled, color-cover booklet. Undated, ca. 1920s. Features photos of passenger accommodations and amenities aboard Canadian-Service fleet of vessels: RMSs Arabic, Megantic, Calgaric, Doric, Albertic and Laurentic. Cover features bold art-deco graphic of passengers and porters boarding a vessel 7. Olympic "Close-Ups" Multi-page stapled booklet. Dated 1921. Features photo-stills from the film "The Olympic, Queen of the Seas" which depict the ship's crew performing their daily obligations, accompanied by text describing the cruise experience. 8. "Anniversary of the Titanic Sinking": Newsprint article clipped from the April 15, 1932 edition of the Los Angeles Times. Features photos depicting the RMS Titanic, and three notable passengers who perished in the disaster. (Isidore Straus, Capt. Edward J Smith and John Jacob Astor.) Text commemmorates the 20th anniversary of the largest shipping disaster to that date.

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

Jun 10, 2011