CANADIAN PACIFIC OCEAN LINER EMPRESS AUSTRALIA AROUND WORLD CRUISE BOOKS, 1928

Description

A large group of ephemera relating to an around-the-world cruise on the Canadian Pacific Steamship line in 1929, aboard the RMS Empress of Australia, between November 1929 and March 1930. Including: Art deco brochure for voyage Departing Southampton, concert program from evening of 20 November 1929, Cap Race meeting brochure, and 6 illustrated Cruise News new sheets, dated between November 1929 and March 1930. And the original landing portfolio issued to passengers in Japan, containing (7) single-sided mimeographed sheets discussing protocol and cities including Kyoto, Nara, Kobe, and Beppu. Fitted into the original paper envelope.  The RMS SS
Empress of Australia led an interesting life, having been completed in Germany slowly over many years as the First World War raged on, she was intended sail for Hamburg America Lines as the SS
Admiral von Tirpitz. However, in 1916, Kaiser Wilhelm II
requisitioned
the as yet uncompleted ship and ordered that she be completed as his Royal Yacht, to used to accept the projected surrender of the Allied Powers. She was seized in 1919 and operated as a troop ship under P & O Lines, then sold to Candian Pacific.
Formats: Brochure = 22.5 x 10cm, opens to poster format 45 x 40.5cm
News Sheets 22.5 x 28.5cm.
Programs approx. 16 x 11cm.
Japan Portfolio: approx 20.5 x 14.5cm, sheets 19.5 x 27cm
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