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(MARITIME.) Autograph and memory book kept aboard the inaugural voyage of the SS Kroonland, kept in a partly printed book, "Outward and Homeward Bound: A Journal and Note-Book for Ocean Voyagers." 75 printed pages plus manuscript notes including 36 inscriptions. 12mo, publisher's pictorial cloth, minor wear, coming disbound; front hinge split, pages 23-24 excised. Laid in are 15 calling cards and other pieces of small ephemera. At sea, June-July 1902
The ocean liner SS Kroonland was at that time the largest steamship ever built in the United States. This album and autograph book was compiled by passenger J.M.B. during its inaugural voyage from New York to Antwerp which launched on 28 June 1902. Highlights include an inscription of the ship's commander H. Doxrud, with his photograph laid down; an illustrated inscription by artist Marietta Minnigerode Andrews; and an inscription by the current Secretary of War Elihu Root, who shared the page with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Frank W. Hackett.
