Carl Schnell, purser of boat "Kaiser Wilhelm II" – Antique Print
(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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Carl Schnell, purser of boat "Kaiser Wilhelm II"
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The subject here is a ship's officer rather than a view of the vessel itself: Carl Schnell, identified as purser of the *Kaiser Wilhelm II*, a passenger liner of the Norddeutscher Lloyd line that sailed between Bremen and New York in the early 1900s. A purser handled a ship's money, tickets, passenger accounts, and paperwork, so a portrait of one captures the commercial side of transatlantic travel, when steamships were the main way to cross the ocean. The record comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York news photo agency whose glass negatives document the city and its people in the decades around 1900. The name and title are taken from the agency's own caption data, which has not been independently verified.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,773 × 4,254 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-1730 |
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