Ship and Ocean Liner Names & Ephemera

 

Immigrant Ship 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.

 

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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

Front Cover, Cunard Line RMS Aurania Cabin and Tourist Third Cabin Passenger List - 20 June 1930.

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

Front Cover, Matinee Concert Program on Board the SS Bremen, Sunday, 17 August 1930.

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

Front Cover, White Star Line RMS Cymric First Class Passenger List - 7 September 1906.

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

1931-03-28 Passenger Manifest for the SS Duchess of York

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

1936-03-24 Passenger Manifest for the SS Exeter

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

Front Cover, SS Frederik VIII Passenger List - 29 May 1931

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

Menu Cover, Farewell Dinner Menu, M.S. Gripsholm, Swedish American Line, First Class, 1950

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.

 

"H" Immigrant Ship Archival Collections

1901-10-05 Passenger List for the SS Devonian

All Digitized Ephemera for Immigrant Ships Beginning with the Letter "H" - Passenger Steamships and Ocean Liners, Dating from the 1870s to 1950s.

Ships Include the Haakon VII, Hamburg, Hanoverian, Hansa, Havel, Haverford, Hellig Olav, Hesperian, Hohenzollern, Homeric, and Hudson.

 

"I" & "J" Immigrant Ship Archival Collections

Front Cover, Farewell Dinner Menu, Tourist Class on the MS Italia of the Home Lines, Friday, 5 December 1952.

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

1901-07-27 Passenger Manifest for the SS Konigin Luise

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

Front Cover, CGT French Line SS La Bourgogne Cabin Class Passenger List - 10 March 1888.

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

White Star Line RMS Majestic Travel Poster, 1922.

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

Front Cover of a Vintage Children's Party Menu from 5 September 1939 on board the MS Northern Prince of the Furness Prince Line

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

Front Cover, Brochure from the Orient-Royal Mail Line of Steamers

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

Front Cover, RMS Queen Elizabeth Dinner Menu - 14 June 1953

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

Front Cover, White Star Line SS Romanic First Class Passenger List - 4 October 1908.

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

Front Cover of a Cabin Passenger List from the SS Spaarndam of the Holland-America Line, Departing 26 March 1892 from Rotterdam to New York.

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

Poster for the RMS Titanic: The World's Largest Liner. Southampton ~ New York via Cherbourg & Queenstown

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

Front Cover of a First Class Passenger List from the SS Vandyck of the Lamport & Holt Line, Departing 9 July 1914 from Buenos Aires to New York via Montevideo, Santos, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia (Salvador), Trinidad (Port of Spain), and Barbados (Bridgetown)

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

Front Cover of a Saloon Passenger List from the SS Westphalia of the Hamburg-American Line, Departing 31 May 1885 from Hamburg to Prague, Commanded by Captain H. H. Barends.

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.

Bookmark pages you're researching and check back periodically for additions as we continue to digitize our extensive ephemera materials.

 

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