Summary

Book issued by Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, circa 1960s. It contains advertising and information for the ship SS Antilles. It is part of a collection of 175 items of post-war ship memorabilia collected by John McKay. John began collecting shipping brochures as a boy through an interest in travel and later used some of the material in his professional capacity as a Geography and Social Studies teacher. He finally made a voyage himself in 1957-1958, to England to attend a scouting jamboree, although he ended up staying for 18 months. He remembers lots of Australians going over at that time, and references to Earls Court as 'Kangaroo Alley'.

Physical Description

Booklet with fold-out contents. When fully opened, the centre spread features 17 colour photographic images of the vessel's facilities and a cross-section of the boat from side perspective. This full spread folds in half once to reveal an A3 size map of the Caribbean Sea, rendered with an old style galleon and a cartouche featuring Christopher Columbus's head, it also has eight photographic images with descriptive text of destinations. The front cover is rendered with a blue background and features illustrations of sea-creatures (sea-horses, sharks, jellyfish, crustaceans, fish, eels and sea-weed), in the centre of the cover is a 'window' showing an illustration of part of the featured vessel.

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