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NORMANDIE & QUEEN MARY at New York [dock] Sept. 15, 1939 – Vintage Wall Art

NORMANDIE & QUEEN MARY at New York [dock] Sept. 15, 1939, c1939. — historic photograph
NORMANDIE & QUEEN MARY at New York [dock] Sept. 15, 1939, c1939.. Historic photograph from the New York City 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 historic photograph of NORMANDIE & QUEEN MARY at New York [dock] Sept. 15, 1939 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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NORMANDIE & QUEEN MARY at New York [dock] Sept. 15, 1939

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Two of the largest ocean liners of their day, the French *Normandie* and the British *Queen Mary*, sit side by side at a New York pier in this photograph, captioned for September 15, 1939. That was two weeks after Germany invaded Poland and Britain and France declared war, so the scene carries the uneasy weight of a port caught between peacetime crossings and wartime disruption. The *Normandie* remained in New York for years afterward and was later seized by the United States and converted for naval service. The date and location come from an old caption card and have not been independently verified, so the image is best read as a record of the waterfront in that season.

Created / publishedc1939.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhototoprint by Irving Underhill. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,221 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-119030

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