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Item Number: MU138 |
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Condition: Excellent
Here’s an original postcard showing the Dining Room of the T.S.S. Rotterdam, a ship from the Holland-America Line. The Rotterdam was one of the earlier ships of the Holland America Line used for pleasure cruising. (The first Holland America cruise was to Copenhagen in June 1895.)
She was specially chartered for ‘Frank Clark’s 16th Annual Cruise to the Mediterranean and the Orient’ which left New York on February 16, 1914. The ship was advertised as ‘sumptuous’ with 56 rooms with brass bedsteads and private baths. There were also 150 single rooms and ‘no overcrowding.’
One of her most attractive features was ‘an immense Dining Saloon, seating nearly 500 people at small tables, where all of our passengers will take their meals, and where an orchestra of artists of high merit will play during lunch and dinner, as well as in the Social Hall in the evening.’
The cuisine was strictly French and famous among the most exacting travelers. Meals were served a la carte, with passengers ordering what they liked, without extra charge, from an elaborate bill of fare. The stewards and stewardesses on the ‘Rotterdam’ spoke English.
The postcard is in Excellent condition, unused with no writing. A great view of that wonderful dining room!
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