1911 White Star Line original promotional brochure for the Titanic & Olympic (large format)
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Stunning and rare large format White Star Line promotional brochure for the S.S. Olympic and Titanic, printed October 1911. The front cover heralds "The World's Largest & Finest Steamers--New Triple Screw S.S. Olympic and Titanic". Paper cover with yarn-sewn binding contains sixteen illustrated pages boasting the unsurpassed size and elegance of the White Star Line's newest passenger steamships, S.S. Olympic and her ill-fated sister ship, Titanic, including a size comparison in which the ships' 882-foot hull dwarfs New York skyscrapers and world monuments, followed by captioned lithographs of the Grand Staircase, Reading and Writing Room, Restaurant, Reception Room, Grand Dining Saloon, Veranda, Lounges, Turkish Bath, Swimming Pool, Squash Court, and Gymnasium, ending with a list of the Line's trans-Atlantic routes and North American offices, marked "Reprint, October, 1911 / No. C2019" at lower right, 10 x 12 inches when closed. Very good condition. The spine and binding fully intact. All pages present. Creasing and edge wear to the covers, including several tiny nicks. A small tear and surface paper loss to the first interior page. The brochure was previously acquired from Bob White of Maryland, the historian and world-renowned artifacts collector who operated his own museum and traveling exhibit.
The front cover bears a period stamp of the Steamship Ticket Department of The Fletcher American National Bank of Indianapolis. This was a bank service desk that would typically sell ocean-liner passage tickets for transatlantic and other ocean voyages, issue travellers’ cheques, provided letters of credit, exchange foreign currency / drafts and help with international remittances and travel paperwork. In immigrant-era United States, these kind of banking departments weren't uncommon, as for many immigrants, travel, remittances, and banking were all part of the same constellation of life problems. Combining many of these services enabled banks such as Fletcher American National Bank to act as a travel bureau for transatlantic migration.
The front cover bears a period stamp of the Steamship Ticket Department of The Fletcher American National Bank of Indianapolis. This was a bank service desk that would typically sell ocean-liner passage tickets for transatlantic and other ocean voyages, issue travellers’ cheques, provided letters of credit, exchange foreign currency / drafts and help with international remittances and travel paperwork. In immigrant-era United States, these kind of banking departments weren't uncommon, as for many immigrants, travel, remittances, and banking were all part of the same constellation of life problems. Combining many of these services enabled banks such as Fletcher American National Bank to act as a travel bureau for transatlantic migration.
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