Booth Line, to Portugal, Madeira & North Brazil / Walter Thomas. – Historic Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Booth Line, to Portugal, Madeira & North Brazil / Walter Thomas., preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Booth Line, to Portugal, Madeira & North Brazil / Walter Thomas.
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A parrot perched in the foreground sets this lithograph apart from the usual steamship advertisement, pairing a Booth Line vessel with the bird life of the Amazon River. The poster was printed in Liverpool by the Liverpool Printing & Stationery Co., sometime between 1930 and 1940, to promote sailings to Portugal, Madeira and northern Brazil. The Booth Steamship Company, based in Liverpool, ran passenger and cargo services up the Amazon to ports such as Manaus and Belém, and posters like this one helped market that route to travelers and shippers. The artist credited is Walter Thomas, whose bold, flat color treatment reflects the commercial poster style common in Britain during those years.
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 103 x 64 cm. |
|---|---|
| Notes | Liverpool : Liverpool Printing & Stationery Co. Ltd., [between 1930 and 1940] |
| Subjects | Ships--British--Amazon River--1930-1940. Parrots--Amazon River--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,880 × 6,123 px · prints to 16 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226034 |
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