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Titanic White Star Line (1912)

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This is the printed-matter world of a 1912 White Star Line crossing — first-class menus, boarding cards, deck plans and cabin-class fare tables, set in crisp Edwardian steel-engraved type on bright ship's-paper stock. Not the disaster; the service. Ruled hairlines box every fare, a burgee-red swallowtail star sits at the masthead, and inscriptional Roman capitals announce the line in gilt. Every ticket and tariff card was a small typographic ceremony aboard the largest moving object ever built.

Learn more about the Titanic White Star Line (1912) style

  • OriginBelfast (Harland & Wolff) and Liverpool / Southampton (White Star Line offices)
  • Period1901–1914 (Olympic-class peak; Titanic launched 1911, maiden voyage April 1912)
  • DesignerThomas Andrews · Alexander Carlisle · J. Bruce Ismay · Lord Pirrie
  • MovementsEdwardian commercial engraving · Belle Époque ocean-liner design · steel-plate stationery printing

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