Brochures

Superb brochure for the America.  24 pages with 21 images of first, cabin, and tourist class.   Centerfold broadside rendering with color cut-away renderings of four cabin types showing the various layouts.  Dates to the early… read more ›

A very early brochure for her, probably from her entry into service.  32 pages with 30 images, many I haven’t seen elsewhere.  Huge amount of information about the rooms and heavy concentration on the decorative… read more ›

Lovely petit brochure for the Aquitania, probably dating the 1920s.  10 photos, including one lovely portrait photo of her at sea.  Measures about 5.75″ x 3.5″  Excellent condition.

Simply fantastic full-color cutaway for Cunard’s RMS Aquitania.  In excellent condition aside from some pin holes.  Does not detract.  All the typical iconic views are shown including the athwartship cutaway and color views of the… read more ›

One of the best brochures ever done for Berengaria.  With 24 pages with 18 full-page images of her first- and second-class public rooms, it is amazing to compare the interior of her and her sisters… read more ›

Introduction into service brochure produced for the North German Lloyd Bremen of 1957.  All color renderings so the ship wasn’t even complete yet.  “Printed in Western-Germany.”  I don’t think I have ever seen it mentioned… read more ›

Return-to-service brochure produced for the Cunard White Star Liner Britannic in 1947.  “The Britannic is not only British in name, from keel to masthead she embodies the traditional skill of British craftsmen.”  I’ll say!  She… read more ›

“A New Transatlantic Aristocrat.” As White Star Line said themselves, ” Our enthusiasm for the new Britannic would result in a description so flowery that the reader might be skeptical.” Running 24 pages and filled… read more ›

Fold-open brochure for Canadian Pacific’s transatlantic service.  When open, it measures about 28.5″ x 18.  23 photos and renderings, most in color.  The graphics on the cover are great!

“Escape to a life of leisure….”  Desirable brochure for Canadian Pacific from the mid 1960’s.  Full-color fold-out with lots of interior photos.  Measures about 19″ x 24″ when unfolded.  In excellent condition.  Just restocked.  You… read more ›

WOW!  What a brochure for Queen Mary!  I consider this one of the two the best brochures ever done for the ship.  The word “brochure” actually doesn’t do this piece justice.  It’s more of a… read more ›

“The Cunard company have been pioneers in the perfection of accommodations for Cabin and Second Class passengers.  Nowhere have developments been greater than in the new fleet of giant one-funnel oil-burning Cunarders.” I couldn’t say… read more ›

1950s color glossy foldout brochure for Cunard Cabin class to Europe.  Really warm and inviting interiors in that British ocean liner style.  By all accounts, cabin class was the way to cross.  More fun, great… read more ›

One of my favorite things about Cunard’s brochures from the 1920s is that they give us a look inside their smaller, more intimate ships as well as their larger liners, especially in their lower classes…. read more ›

The height of Cunard White Star is perhaps represented in this brochure from 1949.  Much talk of the pre-war ships being refitted “in keeping with the latest concepts of comfort and luxury in ocean travel.” … read more ›

Colorful foldout brochure for Cunard White Star’s cruises in 1935.  What ship would you have chosen?  Homeric, Doric, Aquitania, or Lancastria?  “A more thrilling program than ever!”  Fantastic condition and really grand cover art.

Very nice little brochure for first class on board the Cunard White Star liners of the 1930s.  Lots of photos that I have not seen before.  22 illustrations.  Certainly dates to before the Queen Mary… read more ›

Unusual brochure for pre-war tourist class (second class) in French.  Folds open like one of the old postcard folders.  No date listed but is certainly from before the QM entered service because the illustrations for… read more ›

Ah, the new late 1960s Canadian Pacific logo and funnel colors.  An attempt to modernize the looks of CPR.  You can see how Carnival would adopt the scheme later when purchasing these very ships in… read more ›

The mid 1950s were, in my opinion, not the best time for Cunard’s advertising department.  The artwork, brochures, flyers, posters, even the passenger lists are relatively bland.  Then they hit upon what might be the… read more ›

Cunard Line was understandably proud of the wonder ship, the new RMS Queen Mary.  This is a maiden-voyage-era guide to accommodations and, wow, is it extensive.  Running 28 pages and filled with all the details… read more ›

Cunard Line, out of necessity and a sense for good management, invested a lot in their second-class accommodations in the 1920s.  This is likely the best brochures they ever produced for the service.  Obviously self… read more ›

Great brochure produced in 1922 about the history of Cunard.  32 pages with 13 color paintings of various Cunarders through the years and underneath each is a list of statistics of the liner.  In the… read more ›

The importance of tourist class to post-war Cunard cannot be overstated.  As first-class traffic, and then even second-class traffic, began to fall as more and more people flew, tourist-class (equivalent to third class) grew mightily. … read more ›

One of White Star’s most lavish brochures created in the midst of the depression.  This would be one of the last brochures for Adriatic and Baltic.  Celtic and Cedric having already gone.  Runs 24 pages… read more ›

A Canadian Pacific brochure for the “Newest White Empress and the Largest White Empress!”  Great cover graphics!  Sports a full-color cutaway, 16 color renderings, and 10 full-color photos.  Covers both first and second class.  She… read more ›

Superb pre-maiden voyage brochure for Cunard’s Carinthia.  18 page with lots of interior renderings and three photos of her launch.  Also has a full-color rendering of her as a centerfold.  Brochure comes with original mailing… read more ›

I love these colorful cut-aways.  Whether you frame them or just take them out and look at them, they’re gorgeous and informative.  Cunard must have loved them as well because they produced them for all… read more ›

By far the best brochure ever done for Cunard’s superb “Green Goddess.”  Large-format brochure in full color with much gold leaf.  Excellent logos for ss Caronia and Cunard White Star are to be found here,… read more ›

Not-often-seen brochure produced for the launch of the largest ship built anywhere since the end of WWII, Cunard’s incomparable Green Goddess, Caronia.  Because of post-war rationing, promotional materials were not produced on the scale seen… read more ›

Following the summer sun with RMS Caronia’s world cruise of 1965 sounds like a plan, doesn’t it?  As usual for Caronia, she goes the “wrong way” in my opinion, losing time throughout the trip as… read more ›

RMS Caronia…. The world’s wonder cruise ship.  She did three Mediterranean cruises each year–each one longer in length than the last.  This brochure dates to 1965 and is the shortest of the cruises at an… read more ›

A glossy color foldout brochure printed September, 1958, for the Cristoforo Colombo.  This is nearly identical to the Andrea Doria / Cristoforo Colombo brochure of a few years earlier.  It has the same cover and… read more ›

16-page full-color brochure for Canadian Pacific.  Printed in 1959, this contains 17 color photos and renderings of the various classes and the ships.  Covers the Empress of Britain, the Empress of Canada, and the Empress… read more ›

A mint condition brochure for CPR’s West Indies cruise on Empress of England, leaving New York in January, February, and March of 1963.  Runs 10 pages with full color photos of the ship, her interiors,… read more ›

After some teething problems during her first year of service, the Flandre found a loyal following.  In a reference to her early problems, travel writer Temple Fielding said of her: “Now many travelers swear by… read more ›

Full-color brochure filled with 35 photos for both classes. Fold-out in the middle with an aerial photo of her at sea. Pull-out profile at the back which is color-coded to show you in what parts… read more ›

A full-color fold-open brochure with great graphics for the fantastic ss France.  One I haven’t had in quite some time.  The French Line was creative in the images with this brochure.  Really cute.  Measures about… read more ›

An interesting French Line brochure I have only had once before.  Covering the famous ss Ile de France, ss Flandre, and ss Liberte.  Dates to 1950s or, if you will, the 100 year give or… read more ›

A fascinating brochure for the French Line from the ss Normandie era.  As it says itself: “Who would dispute the statement that, without its personnel to give it soul, the most gigantic, most lavishly decorated… read more ›

Very nicely done brochure for the 75th anniversary of the French Line in 1939.  28 pages with lots of illustrations and photos on board.  Some are even in color.  Great condition with some dirt on… read more ›

France Afloat.  Just the title conjures up thoughts of lazy days at sea and wonderful food.  Dates to the immediate post-war period since the Ile de France and Liberte are listed as being refurbished.  “Once… read more ›

Foldout brochure for first, second, and third class on the mv Giulio Cesare.  Measures about 26.5″ x 15.5″.  Dated 1957 and in mint condition.

I haven’t had this one in a while.  A fantastic brochure for the French Line’s famous ss Ile de France.  What can be said about her–one of the most famous liners of all time and… read more ›

Never seen another of these!  Tourist-class brochure for one of the French Line’s greats.  16 pages with 13 images, most of which I have never seen before.  It’s like a tour of tourist class!  Dated… read more ›

Late 1960’s fold-open flyer for the Andrea Doria’s fantastic replacement, the Leonardo da Vinci.  I know some people who sailed on her, and they all say that she was pretty amazing.  I haven’t had this… read more ›

Foldout glossy full color flyer for the Italian Line’s new 33,000-ton Leonardo Da Vinci.  Dates to before the maiden voyage because all the illustrations of her interiors are renderings, which we rarely see for her…. read more ›

I have not had this brochure before.  It is a large and interesting study of the second-class cabins on both the ss Levithan and ss George Washington.  Must date to about 1923 or so.  Runs… read more ›

Formerly the NDL liner, Europa, CGT’s ss Liberte was taken over by the French Line after the war and completely gutted and redecorated.  Despite several mishaps during her refit, she finally made her maiden voyage… read more ›

Outstanding brochure for the Africa and Europa, which sailed on the South Africa express service of Lloyd Triestino. Dating to 1955, this booklet runs 36 pages with lots of on-board and exterior photos and deck… read more ›

One of the final rates and sailing schedules ever issued for the famous RMS Lusitania.  Dating from March, 1914, the cover art still shows Lusitania in her pre-maiden voyage paint job.  She cuts a bold… read more ›

The Worlds Largest Ship!  Majestic and Leviathan were not just vying with each other for the title of the largest ship in the world, they were also vying for speed records.  Here is how that… read more ›

Stunning color cut-away of White Star Line’s RMS Majestic.  In many ways, Majestic was a forerunner to ships such as ss Normandie (with divided uptakes, every public room being double height, etc.).  White Star cut-aways… read more ›

Superb interior brochure for the RMS Mauretania, dating to after World War I.  Runs 16 pages with 26 interior and exterior photos (most are rarely seen) and lots of text about the ship.  The photos… read more ›

I think it’s safe to say that this is the best brochure ever done for the second Mauretania.  Dating from the time of her maiden voyage, this brochure runs 24 pages with each photo covering… read more ›

Here is one I haven’t had in some time.  A cute brochure for the RMS Mauretania.  Using fold outs it covers the majority of the first-class sections of the ship.  Circa 1922-1925ish she is still… read more ›

“The ships of to-morrow.”  Super 8-page entry-into-service brochure for the Media and Parthia produced at the time of their maiden voyages in 1947.  While Cunard billed these ships as all first class, it is safe… read more ›

I haven’t had this Michelangelo & Raffaello fold-open brochure up on the site in a long time.  Many years ago, I got a stack of these from a collection that belonged to an old railroad… read more ›

North German Lloyd brochure for the Berlin, Dresden, and Stuttgart.  These are liners that don’t see too much for.  16 pages.  Lots of interior photos, mostly one to a page.  In excellent condition.

Wonderfully illustrated brochure for third class on the fleet of NDL liners–Bremen, Europa, Columbus, Berlin, Dresden, General von Steuben, and Stuttgart.  29 photos on board all of the mentioned ships, many of which you never… read more ›

Wonderfully illustrated brochure for tourist class on the fleet of NDL liners–Bremen, Europa, Columbus, Berlin, Dresden, General von Steuben, and Stuttgart.  38 photos on board all of the mentioned ships, many of which you never… read more ›

A friend of mine once characterized the type of people who could afford first-class on the ss Normandie as “the privileged class, enjoying their privileges.”  I love the picture that paints in my mind.  The… read more ›

A tourist-class brochure for the Normandie in French.  Fantastic cover art, but what makes it interesting are the renderings inside which make third-class look far more inviting but also suggest it is a maiden-voyage-era brochure. … read more ›

The French Line must be lauded for their efforts as they seem to have produced far more and far nicer brochures for all classes for the Normandie than the Cunard Line did for the Queen… read more ›

Unusual cut-away for the ss Normandie.  Your favorite French Line ship is surrounded by nearly 24 interiors renderings, meaning that it certainly dates to before the maiden voyage.  Great cover art!  Something CGT was really… read more ›

What can I say?  I have only had a few of these in all the years I have been in this business, and it is one of the rarest and most collectible paper Normandie items… read more ›

Running 24 pages and full of information with 16 rarely seen photos.  She was an absolute beauty and is a ship I would love to have tried!  I always found it interesting that CGT, unlike… read more ›

Produced for the great ship’s launch on Tuesday, September 27, 1938. Over 75 years ago now! A gold tipped-in notice on the first page tells us “At the request of the Prime Minister, the King… read more ›

The much-sought-after and highly desirable “gold foil” brochure for first class on the Queen Mary.  Since the brochure is dated March 15, 1937, I have always wondered why Cunard waited a year to put out… read more ›

A fold-open flyer for the new Cunarder Saxonia.  Dates to before the maiden voyage because all the illustrations are color renderings–nine in total.  She went on to be converted to the cruise liner Carmania and… read more ›

Arguably the finest brochure (more like a hard-cover book!) ever created for CGT’s only four stacker. This hardbound entry-into-service brochure sports 36 pages of on-board photos, both interior and exterior, most of which I haven’t… read more ›

The big version of what must have been one of the first and certainly the finest of the brochures produced for the newly merged Cunard White Star Line circa late 1936 or so.  It runs… read more ›

12-page brochure describing the interesting sand art in the Navajo Lounge on board the ss United States.  Measures about 6½” x 4½”.  Absolutely mint.  These have gotten very scarce in the past few years.

Absolutely superb brochure for the new ss United States.  24 pages with 20 full-color artist impressions of first, cabin, and tourist class.   Centerfold foldout is a broadside rendering of the new liner.  Dates to just… read more ›

Pre-maiden voyage brochure for the “superb new” ss United States.  12 pages with 8 color renderings, including  of her interiors.  In the back are some black & white photos of the ss America.

Let’s look inside the world’s fastest luxury liner!  23 photos of life and luxury on board plus opens to a full cutaway in color.  Quite nice and in great condition.  Once you get yours, you… read more ›

RMS Olymipc, Homeric, and Majestic brochure from around 1925.  The finest brochure ever done for White Star Line’s post-war trio of ships.  20 pages of full color covering all 3 ships.  RMS Majestic as the… read more ›