Object Details
- Description
- A souvenir pin from the ocean liner Leviathan, sporting the house flag adopted by the new owners of the United States Lines in late 1931.
- The ocean liner Leviathan was built as the Vaterland for Germany's Hamburg-American Line in 1914. During World War I the American government seized the ship and operated it as a troopship. After a complete reconditioning at Newport News, Virginia, in 1922-23, the Leviathan became the flagship of the new United States Lines, which operated it for the U.S. Shipping Board until 1929. Subsequently sold into private hands, the ship ran until 1934. Laid up as a result of high operating costs and low Depression-era patronage, the Leviathan was sold to Scottish shipbreakers in 1938 and dismantled.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Frank O. Braynard, Sea Cliff, New York
- 1932
- used date
- 1932-1934
- ID Number
- 1991.0856.33
- catalog number
- 1991.0856.33
- accession number
- 1991.0856
- Object Name
- Pin
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- enamel (top material)
- white (top color)
- Measurements
- overall: 7/8 in; x 2.2225 cm
- Associated Place
- United States: New York
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1102330
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-7ab5-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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