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Le Grand Siècle de l’Affiche · Travel, Rail, and Liner
Grande Excursion en Orient, Paquebot Columbia, Hamburg-America Line, Poster, 1898
Unidentified · Hamburg-America Line cruise poster, 1898
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
An 1898 poster for the Hamburg-America Line, lettered in French as the Compagnie Hambourgeoise Américaine, advertising a grand excursion to the Orient aboard the mail steamer Columbia.
Why it matters
The line’s 1891 voyage of the Augusta Victoria to the Mediterranean and the Near East is often called the first passenger cruise; the Columbia was one of its sister liners. Mühlmeister & Johler printed this in Hamburg.
What to notice
The artist is unrecorded. The ship has the name; the designer does not.
An ocean liner turned to leisure for the off season.
Provenance
- School
- Belle Époque — the Affiche (France)
- Designer
- Unidentified
- Printer / house
- Mühlmeister & Johler, Hamburg
- Format
- Travel poster
- Poster published
- Hamburg-America Line cruise poster, 1898
- Source
- Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) · BnF btv1b90176388
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01.
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