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A brochure for a 10-day Christmas and New Year's cruise to the Caribbean on the FRANCONIA in 1966. The front page has the itinerary, which included St. Maarten, St. Thomas and San Juan. On the back is a schedule of rates. There is an aerial photo of the ship's Lido deck, a photo of a lounge, and one of the swimming pool. There is also a drawing of two musicians.

Abstract A pamphlet advertising an autumn 1966 cruise to the Mediterranean and Black Sea. The trip was 61 days and went to 21 countries, with a full itinerary listing all the ports. The text emphasizes that autumn as an ideal time to travel and the CARONIA as a "vacation island" with "all the comforts of home" as well as a new Lido Deck, gourmet meals, movies, dance lessons, and professional entertainment. Shore tours were apparently organized by American Express. At the center is a fare schedule,...

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2.75x7.25" 1903 Riggs National Bank check endorsed by Archibald Butt, TITANIC victim. The check is made out to the Depot Quartermaster U.S. Army, Butt's title at this time, in the amount of $66.36. The check has been punched with the word "paid."

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Personal correspondence and genealogical research of Claire L. Starr, a New London local historian and genealogist who was the daughter of fisherman Samuel A. Beebe, Jr., and granddaughter of Captain Samuel A. Beebe.

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4.25x6.25" envelope with an image of the TITANIC

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4.25x6.25" envelope with a color image of the TITANIC.

Abstract A Swedish event cover envelope postmarked April 20, 1991 commemorating the TITANIC Artifacts Exhibition in Stockholm and signed by Millvina Dean. Millvina Dean was the youngest of TITANIC's survivors, just two months old when her family boarded the ship as Third Class passengers. They intended to emigrate from England to Wichita, Kansas. She and her mother and older brother survived, but her father died in the sinking. Millvina's mother took her children back to England after the disaster....

Abstract 4.5x7.5" envelope commemorating 85th anniversary of TITANIC, labeled "official Wessex cover," with the autograph of Michel Navratil, a TITANIC survivor. The envelope has a composite image with the ship, the famous newsboy photo, poppies with the saying "lest we forget" and an image of the wreck of the TITANIC. The verso says "official Rembrandt souvenir," with a White Star flag on an anchor and the number 85, and there is a certification that this is autograph 7 of 60. The stamp is of Saint...

Abstract A "certification" card signed by the Cruise Director on the QUEEN MARY. It reads in part, "This is to certify that Mr. George Francis is a member in good standing and high proficiency in the 'Queen Mary' Rhythm Band." The back of the card has 10 signatures, including Mr. Francis-- perhaps these are fellow members of the band. On orange cardstock, undated. Cunard Line employed cruise directors as early as the 1930s. Associated with another certification card issued to George Francis, item...

Abstract January 1949 booklet about Cunard White Star's First Class accommodations. The booklet was issued in relationship to the maiden voyage of the CARONIA in January 1949, and the text also focuses on six other ships-- the BRITANNIC, MAURETANIA, MEDIA, PARTHIA, QUEEN MARY and QUEEN ELIZABETH. A number of Cunard's other ships had been sunk during World War II, but the MAURETANIA, QUEEN MARY and QUEEN ELIZABETH were all new before the war and had made it through unscathed, and the MEDIA and PARTHIA...