Collections Item Detail
Wallet, ticket: Red Star Line. Anvers New York; Antwerpen Amerika.
Object/Artifact
Ticket wallet: Red Star Line. Anvers New York; Antwerpen Amerika.
No date, circa 1900-1914. Sewn plain canvas printed in black with red cloth edging. 4-1/2" wide x 6-5/8" high. Two interior pockets.
Passenger steamship depicted on back is probably the Vaderland (2) or the Lapland.
Inside has text in four languages.
Routes listed:
Antwerpen - New York
Antwerpen - Philadelphia
Antwerpen - Boston
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The Red Star Line later used piers in Hoboken, but not at this time.
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transportation / business / commerce / ocean liner / immigration / Antwerp / Belgium
2014.021.0032
2014.021
Purchase
Purchase
Museum Collections.
1900 - 1914
Date: 1900-1914
Notes: Exhibition 2014: Hoboken, Ellis Island, and the Immigrant Experience, 1892-1924 ---- 1872-1902 Antwerp - Philadelphia 1876-1904 Antwerp - New York 1902-1904 Antwerp - Southampton - New York Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2014-06-16