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Jessie M. Bier Autograph Album, 1902 ; S.S. Kroonland (M-8054.1)

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Volume : Bier 1902
Abstract:
Signatures and entries of fellow passengers and officers collected in printed album, Outward and Homeward Bound. A Journal and Note-Book for Ocean Voyagers (New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Co., n.d.). Kept during the S.S. Kroonland's maiden voyage from New York to Antwerp. Includes printed text about shipboard practices, poems, maps, and a colored illustration of "Funnels & Flags of the Principal Passenger Steamship Lines Between New York and European Ports." Bulk of entries written in English, but theer is one written in Chinese kanji, as well as others in German, French, and Russian. A "logbook" section notes latitude, longitude, and distance traveled. Several photographs of crew members are pasted into the volume, including the captain H. Doxrud. One entry includes bars of manuscript music for morning, lunch, and dinner calls, and several pen-and-ink drawings of people appear in the volume of people. Notable autographs include the Consul to Geneva, author and artist Marietta M. Andrews, artist J. Knowles Hare, Secretary of War Elihu Root, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Frank W. Hackett. Fifteen items are laid into the front of the volume, including various calling cards, slips of papers with contact information, and a painting of a bride in a wedding dress with a bouquet and veil.

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