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San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Ocean tramps by themselves
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Bifolium of a newsletter detailing activities held onboard a ship for hire (tramp steamer) departing on April 11th from Bombay (present day Mumbai), India and arriving on April 17th at Aden, Yemen. Text by an anonymous "Editor" describes the item as a prospectus for the paper, "The Tramp." The author discusses amusements held onboard the ship such as bridge tournaments, music concerts, and sightings of sea creatures. The newsletter includes lithographed text and four embellished illustrations done in pen and ink, three of which are water-colored by hand. Caricature images include a dog in a ruffled collar as the "dramatic critic" for a Punch and Judy puppet show, two seamen smoking and sweeping on deck, and anthropomorphized images of a sea serpent and the sun. Text written lightly in pencil on the back of the newsletter reads, "H.M Hired Transport for Sardinia, April 1903"; the item was possibly created on a ship sailing from Bombay to London with stops at Aden, Suez, and Sardinia.
mssHM 84060