DescriptionSepia-tone photo of the first class dining room of ocean liner Leviathan while mothballed in Hoboken, circa late 1930s and before 1938. Print 8" high x 10" wide. Photograph taken for Register and Tribune Photoservice; individual not named. Mimeographed caption pasted to reverse with inkstamped date of Jan 30 1938. Notation on reverse in blue pencil: St-31-L. Inkstamp conditions of use text. View of the very dusty dining room table well after the event in the caption. The appearance of it suggests that it was a set-up to make the the scene more newsworthy as described below. Caption: Of the Once-Proud Leviathan THE LAST GUEST IS GONE. Only a plate and a paper hat, remnants of a farewell dinner, are left on the commodore's table in the Leviathan's first class dining room... For eight years (1913-1921) the Leviathan was the largest ship in the world. But now she is out of service, a ghost ship rotting at her pier in Hoboken, N.J. Soon she may be scrapped for junk. (Register and Tribune Photo Service) Apparently a file photo taken several months if not years earlier than the date of Jan. 30, 1938. The ship was already on its way to be scrapped; it departed Hoboken for Scotland on January 25, 1938. The new date was apparently the date this file photo was sent to a customer.