Ship and Ocean Liner Names & Ephemera
Some of the most prized collectibles are ephemeral memorabilia produced on or for each voyage or ship. They include passenger lists, brochures, tickets and voyage contracts, luggage tags, postcards, sports and entertainment programs, track charts, deck plans, menus, onboard newspapers, magazines, books, voyage log extracts, passenger letters, ship letterhead, cap tallies, photographs, illustrations, logos, and more.
While the GG Archives has an extensive collection of these paper memorabilia or ephemera, the number of digitized items varies greatly by ship. Some we have extensive holdings, while others, we may have only one or two choice pieces. Take a different look at history through the often graphically exquisite ephemera for the ships of your ancestors.
Ship Search
We have grouped the ships alphabetically and disclose within each letter(s) the first and last listing in that grouping.
"A" Immigrant Ship Archival Collections
All Digitized Ephemera for Immigrant Ships Beginning with the Letter "A" - Passenger Steamships and Ocean Liners, Dating from the 1870s to 1950s.
Ships Include the Admiral, Adriatic, Alaunia, Albania, Albert Ballin, Albertic, Alesia, Aller, America, American Banker, American Farmer, American Merchant, American Shipper, American Trader, Amerika, Anchoria, Andania, Andorinha, Antonia, Aquitania, Arabic, Araguaya, Arawa, Armadale Castle, Arundale Castle, Ascania, Assyria, Astoria, Asturias, Athenia, Athenic, Atlantic, Auguste Victoria, Aurania, Ausonia, Austral, and Avoceta.
"B" Immigrant Ship Archival Collections
All Digitized Ephemera for Immigrant Ships Beginning with the Letter "B" - Passenger Steamships and Ocean Liners, Dating from the 1870s to 1950s.
Ships Include the Baltic, Batavia, Belgenland, Berengaria, Bergensfjord, Berlin, Blücher, Bohemian, Brandenburg, Bremen, Britannia, and Britannic.
"C" Immigrant Ship Archival Collections
All Digitized Ephemera for Immigrant Ships Beginning with the Letter "C" - Passenger Steamships and Ocean Liners, Dating from the 1870s to 1950s.
Ships Include the Caledonia, Calgaric, California, Cameronia, Campania, Canada, Canopic, Capetown Castle, Carinthia, Carmania, Carnarvon Castle, Caronia, Carpathia, Cassandra, Cassel, Castel Felice, Cedric, Celtic, Cephalonia, C. F. Tietgen, Champlain, Chemnitz, Chicago, Cincinnati, Circassia, City of Baltimore, City Of Berlin, City of Brussels, City of Chester, City of Chicago, City of Hamburg, City of Havre, City of London, City of New York, City of Newport News, City of Norfolk, City of Rome, Cleveland, Colombo, Columbia, Columbus, Commonwealth, Constitution, Conte Biancamano, Conte di Savoia, Conte Grande, Corinthic, Corsican, Cretic, and Cymric.
"D" Immigrant Ship Archival Collections
All Digitized Ephemera for Immigrant Ships Beginning with the Letter "D" - Passenger Steamships and Ocean Liners, Dating from the 1870s to 1950s.
Ships Include the De Grasse, Demosthenes, Derfflinger, Deutschland, Devonian, Dominion, Doric, Dresden, Drottningholm, Duchess of Atholl, Duchess of Bedford, Duchess of Richmond, Duchess of York, Duilio, Dunluce Castle, and Dunvegan Castle.
"E" Immigrant Ship Archival Collections
All Digitized Ephemera for Immigrant Ships Beginning with the Letter "E" - Passenger Steamships and Ocean Liners, Dating from the 1870s to 1950s.
Ships Include the Edinburgh Castle, Eider, Elbe, Empress of Australia, Empress of Britain, Empress of Canada, Empress of France, Empress of Scotland, Ems, Espagne, Estonia, Ethiopia, Etruria, Euripides, Europa, Excalibur, Excambion, and Exeter.
"F" Immigrant Ship Archival Collections
All Digitized Ephemera for Immigrant Ships Beginning with the Letter "F" - Passenger Steamships and Ocean Liners, Dating from the 1870s to 1950s.
Ships Include the Finland, France, Franconia, Frankfurt, Frederik VIII, Friedrich Der Grosse, Friesland, Fulda, Furnessia, and Fürst Bismarck.
"G" Immigrant Ship Archival Collections
All Digitized Ephemera for Immigrant Ships Beginning with the Letter "G" - Passenger Steamships and Ocean Liners, Dating from the 1870s to 1950s.
Ships Include the Galilea, Garka, George Washington, Georgic, Germanic, Gerolstein, Giulio Cesare, Graf Waldersee, Grampian, Gripsholm, and Grosser Kurfürst.
"I" & "J" Immigrant Ship Archival Collections
All Digitized Ephemera for Immigrant Ships Beginning with the Letters "I" & "J" - Passenger Steamships and Ocean Liners, Dating from the 1870s to 1950s.
Ships Include the Ile De France, Imperator, Independence, Ionian, Ionic, Italia, and Ivernia.
"K" Immigrant Ship Archival Collections
All Digitized Ephemera for Immigrant Ships Beginning with the Letter "K" - Passenger Steamships and Ocean Liners, Dating from the 1870s to 1950s.
Ships Include the Kaiser, Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, Kaiserin Maria Theresia, Karlsruhe, Kensington, Kong Harald, Kronprinz Wilhelm, Königin Luise, Koning Wilhelm II, Kristianiafjord, Kronprinzessin Cecilie, Kroonland, and Kungsholm.
"L" Immigrant Ship Archival Collections
All Digitized Ephemera for Immigrant Ships Beginning with the Letter "L" - Passenger Steamships and Ocean Liners, Dating from the 1870s to 1950s.
Ships Include the L'Aquitaine, La Bourgogne, La Bretagne, La Champagne, La Gascogne, La Lorraine, La Normandie, La Savoie, La Touraine, Labrador, Laconia, Lafayette, Lahn, Lancastria, Lapland, Latvia, Laurentian, Laurentic, Lessing, Letitia, Leviathan, Liberté, Lituania, Llandaff Castle, Lucania, Lusitania, and Lützow.
"M" Immigrant Ship Archival Collections
All Digitized Ephemera for Immigrant Ships Beginning with the Letter "M" - Passenger Steamships and Ocean Liners, Dating from the 1870s to 1950s.
Ships Include the Maasdam, Majestic, Manchuria, Manhattan, Marburn, Marine Phoenix, Marloch, Marquette, Mauretania, Mauretania II (1938), Media, Megantic, Melita, Merion, Mesaba, Metagama, Meteor, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Minnedosa, Minnehaha, Minnekahda, Minnesota, Minnetonka, Minnewaska, Missanabie, Moltke, Monarch of Bermuda, Mongolia, Mongolian, Montcalm, Montclare, Montlaurier, Montnairn, Montrose, Montroyal, Mount Clinton, and München.
"N" Immigrant Ship Archival Collections
All Digitized Ephemera for Immigrant Ships Beginning with the Letter "N" - Passenger Steamships and Ocean Liners, Dating from the 1870s to 1950s.
Ships Include the Neptunia, Nestor, New England, New York, Nieuw Amsterdam, Noordam, Noordland, Normandie, and Northern Prince.
"O" Immigrant Ship Archival Collections
All Digitized Ephemera for Immigrant Ships Beginning with the Letter "O" - Passenger Steamships and Ocean Liners, Dating from the 1870s to 1950s.
Ships Include the Oceanic, Ohio, Olympic, Oranje Nassau, Orbita, Orca, Orduña, Orient, Orion, Orontes, Oropesa, Oroya, and Oscar II.
"P" & "Q" Immigrant Ship Archival Collections
All Digitized Ephemera for Immigrant Ships Beginning with the Letters "P" & "Q" - Passenger Steamships and Ocean Liners, Dating from the 1870s to 1950s.
Ships Include the Pannonia, Paris, Parisian, Patria, Patricia, Pavonia, Pennland, Pennsylvania, Persic, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Polonia, Potsdam, President Adams, President Arthur, President Fillmore, President Garfield, President Grant, President Harding, President Harrison, President Hayes, President Jackson, President Lincoln, President Monroe, President Polk, President Roosevelt, President Van Buren, Pretoria, Pretorian, Principe di Udine, Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm, Prinzess Irene, Providence, Queen Elizabeth, and Queen Mary.
"R" Immigrant Ship Archival Collections
All Digitized Ephemera for Immigrant Ships Beginning with the Letter "R" - Passenger Steamships and Ocean Liners, Dating from the 1870s to 1950s.
Ships Include the Red Cross, Regina, Reigate, Reliance, Republic, Resolute, Rex, Rhein, Rhynland, Rochambeau, Roma, Romanic, Rotterdam, Ruahine, Russia, and Ryndam.
"S" Immigrant Ship Archival Collections
All Digitized Ephemera for Immigrant Ships Beginning with the Letter "S" - Passenger Steamships and Ocean Liners, Dating from the 1870s to 1950s.
Ships Include the Saale, Samaria, Sant Anna, Santa Rosa, Saturnia, Saxonia, Scandinavian, Scharnhorst, Schwaben, Scotia, Scotsman, Scythia, Servia, Seydlitz, Sibajak, Sierra Cordoba, Sierra Ventana, Silesia, Slavonia, Sophocles, Spaarndam, St. Louis, St. Paul, State of Pennsylvania, Statendam, Stavangerfjord, Stirling Castle, Strathmore, Stuttgart, and Suffren.
"T" Immigrant Ship Archival Collections
All Digitized Ephemera for Immigrant Ships Beginning with the Letter "T" - Passenger Steamships and Ocean Liners, Dating from the 1870s to 1950s.
Ships Include the Teutonic, Thuringia, Titanic, Transylvania, Trave, Tunisian, and Tuscania.
"U" & "V" Immigrant Ship Archival Collections
All Digitized Ephemera for Immigrant Ships Beginning with the Letters "U" & "V" - Passenger Steamships and Ocean Liners, Dating from the 1870s to 1950s.
Ships Include the Ultonia, Ulysses, Umbria, United States, Vaderland, Vancouver, Vandyck, Vaterland, Veendam, Victoria Luise, Victorian, Virginian, Volendam, and Vulcania.
"W" through "Z" Immigrant Ship Archival Collections
All Digitized Ephemera for Immigrant Ships Beginning with the Letters "W" through "Z" - Passenger Steamships and Ocean Liners, Dating from the 1870s to 1950s.
Ships Include the Walmer Castle, Warwick Castle, Washington, Werra, Westernland, Westphalia, Winchester Castle, Windsor Castle, Winifredian, Yorck, Yorkshire, Zaandam, and Zeeland.
Ephemera contained in the GG Archives collection represent the souvenirs provided to the passengers of each voyage. Many of these souvenir ephemeral items have disappeared over the years.
Our selection varies considerably by ship, and likely contains only a sampling of what was originally produced and printed by the steamship lines.
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