Book Description
The cards provide an enduring record of the great age of intercontinental travel by sea. This book gives a fascinating picture of a more leisured age before the advent of the jet airliner.
Author : Robert Wall
Publisher : ACC Distribution
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
The cards provide an enduring record of the great age of intercontinental travel by sea. This book gives a fascinating picture of a more leisured age before the advent of the jet airliner.
Author : Lorraine Coons
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 11,90 MB
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 144564987X
Lorraine Coons and Alexander Varias explore the world of interwar steamship travel.
Author : Christopher Deakes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 18,3 MB
Release : 2023-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1493077627
From around 1880, for almost a hundred years, shipowners commissioned a wealth of paintings that depicted their magnificent liners as well as the routes they travelled, their exotic destinations, and life onboard. These paintings, rich in imagination and atmosphere, appeared on postcards and posters of the day and were used to advertise the companies and their ships; and so was born a whole genre that produced tens of thousands of paintings which formed a wonderful record of the great era of the passenger liner. In 1900, there were over thirty shipping companies operating passenger liners across the North Atlantic. Other oceans were similarly served. But now, with just a few exceptions, the companies and their liners have disappeared along with the art they once inspired. Little remains to recall this aspect of our maritime past except the postcards; and they tell an evocative story of the vanished world of elegant ships and leisurely travel, of social and political times much changed by the history of the past century. Here, brought vividly to life in more than 500 colourful postcards, are the ships on which so many of our predecessors sailed—as emigrants, soldiers, administrators, or simply as tourists—in days long past. These cards, which are now highly collectable, show how steamships developed over the years, but they are also a fine tribute to the artists who painted them. This volume also includes a glossary of some 170 illustrators, which forms an important reference section, and advice on collecting.
Author : Alan Obin
Publisher :
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 47,11 MB
Release : 2000-02
Category :
ISBN : 9780948646157
This is the 15th annual edition of the Bibliography of Nautical Books, a reference guide to over 14,000 nautical publications. It deals specifically with the year 2000.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 30,45 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
ISBN :
Author : Robert Crump
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 39,79 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780873516358
A definitive survey of Minnesota's vibrant printmaking scene in the first half of the twentieth century that features almost two hundred artists.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Ships
ISBN :
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Publisher :
Page : 1204 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 1998
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher :
Page : 1270 pages
File Size : 13,7 MB
Release : 2000
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Corcoran Gallery of Art
Publisher : Lucia Marquand
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Painting
ISBN : 9781555953614
This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.