Cunard White Star
Designer
Tom Curr
United Kingdom, 1887 - 1958
Datec. 1937
MediumLithograph
Dimensions40 x 25 1/4 in. (101.6 x 64.1 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LinePoster House Permanent Collection
Object numberPH.8206
DescriptionThis poster shows the RMS Queen Mary steaming up the Hudson River past the lower tip of Manhattan as it is escorted by tugboats to its berth at Pier 92, located at 50th Street. Visible within the packed cityscape of Lower Manhattan are the Whitehall Building, the City Bank-Farmers Trust Building (known today as 20 Exchange Place), the Standard Oil Building, the Bank of Manhattan Trust Building, and the Cities Service Building (now 70 Pine Street). In 1934, after the Great Depression had affected transatlantic travel and all but halted ship production in Great Britain, Cunard and White Star merged to form Cunard-White Star Line. This corporate union allowed for the completion of the RMS Queen Mary in 1936, one of the most famous ocean liners of the period. The Queen Mary’s maiden voyage began on May 27, 1936, and for the next three years it crossed the Atlantic just under 50 times until the outbreak of World War II. In March of 1940, it sailed to Australia to be retrofitted as a troop transport, resuming commercial passenger service on July 25, 1947. After its final voyage in 1967, it was permanently moored in Long Beach, California, where it still serves as a floating hotel and museum.
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