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Hamburg-American line, S.S. Imperator – Antique Wall Art

Hamburg-American line, S.S. Imperator, [between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph
Hamburg-American line, S.S. Imperator, [between 1910 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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Step back in time with Hamburg-American line, S.S. Imperator, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Hamburg-American line, S.S. Imperator

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Few ocean liners of the early 1910s were as large as the Hamburg-American Line's *Imperator*, and this picture records a tin lithograph of her rather than the ship herself. The lithograph, by A.F. Bishop of New Haven, Connecticut, is dated 1911, a year before the liner was launched at Hamburg, so the image was a promotional design made from plans and expectations. The Detroit Publishing Company photographed the piece on a glass negative, and the record notes it was marked "Byron." The company's collection is known for documenting American and European scenes at the turn of the century, and this copy preserves a rendering of a ship that later served as a British troopship and then as the Cunard liner *Berengaria*.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
NotesPhotograph of a lithograph on tin by A.F. Bishop, New Haven, Conn., 1911, posted issue 1914; photograph marked Byron
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76086

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