Ask the Scholar
Document scope · 1 page
Scholar
Ask about this object, its catalog metadata, its source description, or the page inventory.
For page-specific OCR and visual context, open one of the page chats.
Source Description
Published for the Cunard Steam Ship Company in the 1920s, this map locates the company's ports in the British Isles. It also displays the various routes connecting these ports with each other and other ports in Europe and America. Established in 1840 primarily as a mail line, by 1920 the Cunard Steam Ship Company was the premier trans-Atlantic cruise line, boasting among its fleet such famed vessels as the "Brittania", the "Mauritania", and the "Lusitania" (the latter of which was lost to a German U-boat in 1915). The Cunard line would later grow to include the "Queen Elizabeth II", which still serves the trans-Atlantic route.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
x633f972d
label
British Isles
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
x633f972d
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
British Isles
description
Published for the Cunard Steam Ship Company in the 1920s, this map locates the company's ports in the British Isles. It also displays the various routes connecting these ports with each other and other ports in Europe and America. Established in 1840 primarily as a mail line, by 1920 the Cunard Steam Ship Company was the premier trans-Atlantic cruise line, boasting among its fleet such famed vessels as the "Brittania", the "Mauritania", and the "Lusitania" (the latter of which was lost to a German U-boat in 1915). The Cunard line would later grow to include the "Queen Elizabeth II", which still serves the trans-Atlantic route.
date
["1920"]
year
1920
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
05_04_000030
creators
Cunard Steamship Company, ltd
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
British Isles--Maps
subjectsGeographic
British Isles
Europe
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
New York
publisher
C.S. Hammond & Co.
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
41688024w
schema:latitude
54
schema:longitude
-4
extent
1 map : col. ; 31.75 x 22.86 cm.
notes
Relief shown by hachures.
Includes index and table showing rail distances.
Exhibited in “Faces and Places,” at the Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, October 2003 - September 2004. MB (BRL)
hasTranscription
no
dcId
x633f972d
type
map
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
6e3869c366e9e358