Summary
Illustrated ship's menu from the SS Jervis Bay during a voyage from Australia to Britain in May-June 1938. It is the 'Dinner d'Adieu' menu for Monday 13 June 1938. It was kept as a souvenir by Daisy Poole who was 12 years old at the time of her voyage to the UK from Australia on the SS Jervis Bay.
The cover artwork for the menu is by Ernest Longmate, a leading commercial artist of the period who illustrated other Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line publications.
Physical Description
Illustrated four page menu card with colour illustration of a woman in a two-piece costume holding the tassel of a blue curtain.
Significance
Daisy Poole's souvenir menu has dual significance as a personal record of the migration experience of one family and as a rare surviving relic of the SS Jervis Bay, the most famous of the five 'Bay' ships built for the Commonwealth Shipping Line.
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Mr Philip Maggs, Dec 2010
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Inscriptions
'Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line' on front cover. Pencil autograph on back page 'F.E. Coukham'
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Overall Dimensions
130 mm (Width), 210 mm (Height)
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Keywords
English Immigration, Food, Immigrant Shipping, Immigrant Voyages, Menus, Naval Vessels, Passenger Ships, Return Migration, Shipping Lines, Souvenirs
