Hamburg-American Line poster "The Development of Shipping"

poster

PRINTS - LITHOGRAPHS
Bohrdt, Hans
GERMANY
After 1926
paper
26.00 x 37.00 x 0

Color lithograph poster made in Germany; printed at top "The Development of Shipping" and at bottom "HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE"; signed in the plate lower left "Hans Bohardt[?]"; vignette illustrations of vessels, including ancient log dug-out, Viking boat 600-900 AD, Roman trireme 300 BC, Egyptian galley 1700 BC, Simon V. Utrecht's BUNTE KUH 14th century, Columbus' SANTA MARIA, 16th century DER LUBSCHE ADLER, 5-masted ship PREUSSEN, 18th century English 3-decker, 17th century ship WAPPEN of Hamburg, steamships HAMMONIA, WASHINGTON, Fulton's CLERMONT, and Hamburg-American Liners DEUTSCHLAND (1848), DEUTSCHLAND (1900), HAMBURG (1926), PRESIDENT LINCOLN, BORUSSIA, FURST BISMARCK.

UNIDENTIFIED Viking boat; UNIDENTIFIED log dugout; UNIDENTIFIED trireme; UNIDENTIFIED galley
1996.70