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[The S.S. OLYMPIC, 1911: Reading room] – Antique Wall Art

[The S.S. OLYMPIC, 1911: Reading room], c1911. — historic photograph
[The S.S. OLYMPIC, 1911: Reading room], c1911.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [The S.S. OLYMPIC, 1911: Reading room] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This view of the reading room aboard the S.S. Olympic shows one of the lounges meant for first-class passengers on the White Star Line liner, which entered service in 1911. The Olympic was the first of three giant liners built in Belfast, and its interiors were designed to make crossings of the Atlantic feel like time spent in a comfortable club or hotel. William H. Rau, a Philadelphia photographer known for his photoprints of ships and rail lines, made this copyrighted print. Because the record comes from an old caption card and its details are unverified, the room's exact location on the ship is worth checking against other sources.

Created / publishedc1911.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by William H. Rau. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,214 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-115400

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