United States Lines
Object Details
- Series Creator
- Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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- Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Steamboats [Ships, Boats, and Vessels]
- Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Steamboats [Ships, Boats, and Vessels] / Business Records and Marketing Material / Shipping Lines/Conglomerates / United States Shipping Board
- Sponsor
- Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).
- Archival Repository
- Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Type
- Archival materials
- Series Citation
- Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Ships, Boats, and Vessels, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
- Series Rights
- Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
- Scope and Contents
- USL functioned as the managing operators for the U.S. Shipping Board (circa 1923). Serving New York, Ireland, England, France, Germany. Fleet: President Monroe, President Adams, President Van Buren, President Polk, President Garfield, President Fillmore, President Harding, George Washington, President Roosevelt, Leviathan, America, United States. Materials include: shipping routes brochures, price list. Rejection letter to nurse applicant (1926 March 23). Booklet, Going Abroad (undated). Book, Planning a Trip Abroad (1923, 2 copies). Ship specific documents: Theodore Roosevelt - clipped magazine advertisements. President Fillmore - passenger list for 1923 June 21 Breman to New York. Leviathan - two children's party guest lists (undated, 1927 September 24), souvenir log, passenger list for 1926 July 3 New York to Cherbourg and Southamption; passenger list for 1927 June 21 Southampton and Cherbourg to New York. America - passenger list 1929 January 30 New York to Plymouth, Cherbourg, and Breman, postcard, dinner menu 1929 January 31, farewell dinner menu 1929 February 6.
- Series Restrictions
- Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.
- Record ID
- ebl-1562726408127-1562726408352-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0