Shipping Lines poster collection
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of advertisement posters of ship routes to various countries including France, Germany, Java, India, and more. The companies who created these advertisements include Royal Packet Navigation Company, Royal Netherlands West India Mail, Columbian Rope Company, TIME, Raymond Whitcomb Cruises, Cunard Line, The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, French Line, Scandinavian-American Line, L. M. and S. Railway Company, Hamburg-American Line, Canadian Pacific, and North German Lloyd.
Dates
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1930s-1960s
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Extent
5.333 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection consists of advertisement posters of ship routes to various countries including France, Germany, Java, and India.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred from the USC Library for International and Public Affairs.
Processing Information
This collection is unprocessed.
Subject
- London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company -- Archives (Organization)
- Skandinavien Amerika-linien -- Archives (Organization)
- Compagnie générale transatlantique -- Archives (Organization)
- Royal Mail Steam Packet Company -- Archives (Organization)
- Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft -- Archives (Organization)
- Time -- Archives (Organization)
- Cunard Steamship Company, ltd. -- Archives (Organization)
- Raymond Whitcomb tours -- Archives (Organization)
- Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij -- Archives (Organization)
- Canadian Pacific Limited -- Archives (Organization)
- Norddeutscher Lloyd -- Archives (Organization)
- Columbian Rope Company -- Archives (Organization)
- Title
- Finding aid for the Shipping Lines poster collection
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Author
- Marissa Chavez for History Associates Incorporated
- Date
- 2022 March
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
specol@usc.edu