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British

• Cunard Archives, University of Liverpool Special Collections
• National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London
  • For Researchers
  • Caird Short-Term Research Fellowship
    • “The awards are specifically intended to support scholars and museum professionals who live abroad or at a distance from London for periods of up to three months.”
    • either two or three months at 1600 pounds per month
  • It has a Center for Art and Travel and the library w/the manuscripts is called the Caird Library
  • NMM’s Collections
    • RMS Titanic documents, incl interviews, especially
      The Walter Lord and William Macquitty Titanic Collection; as well as books about White Star Line
    • Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company records
    • Film archive: passenger ships category
    • “BESIDE THE SEASIDE” exhibition of pictures that show British seaside life 1880-1950; these are called the Francis Frith collection (that’s the guy who did the photographs); this exhibittion was ended in April and is available for touring, but surely I’d be able to look at them, right?
    • also the Bedford Lemere & Co. pictures, photographers of interiors of passage liners (me: especially of Aquitania)
  • they like the phrase “culture of cruising”

List

• The Cunard logs: Aquitania, Mauretania, Berengaria, Ausonia; menus and advertisements; Cunard Cabin Services brochures in particular; and Cunard Christmas Number, and Daily Bulletins; 1893 The Cunard Line and the World’s Fair, Chicago, 1893 published by Cunard company and 1908 Cunard Souvenir Book to Europe and its 1886 History of the Cunard Steamship Company; relevant passenger lists; Queen Mary “plan of tourist class accommodations”
• P&O – regulations and instructions manuals; ephemera like menus and pamphlets for employees and the ones for patrons; postcards; ship’s newspapers; focusing on materials up to 1940s
• Cruising books: Ursula Bloom A Cad’s Guide to Cruising 1938; Horace Lester Happy Days or Cruising in the Mediterranean 1934; P Bonthrom’s My holidays on inland waterways 1919; Arthur Underhill’s A short history of the first half-century of the Royal Cruising Club 1930; Heywood Hadfield’s With an ocean liner (Orient Co’s SS Ophir) through the fiords of Norway 1910; Claud Worth’s Yacht Cruising 1910. Also contemporary books written on the history of cruising

North American

• John Carter Brown Library in Providence, RI
• Peabody Essex Museum
• Yale Center for British Art

Miscellaneous

• P&O still out there!! http://www.pocruises.com/