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Topic: Carinthia & Franconia booklet

linerguy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4289

posted 07-30-2008 12:32 AM

I have uploaded a wonderful 1926 interior booklet for the Carinthia and Franconia on my site. I paid about $25 for this several years ago. Here's the link:

Booklet

Russ

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desirod7
First Class Passenger
Member # 1626

posted 07-30-2008 12:46 AM

quote:
Originally posted by linerguy:
I have uploaded a wonderful 1926 interior booklet for the Carinthia and Franconia on my site. I paid about $25 for this several years ago. Here's the link:
Booklet
Russ

Excellent! The Anderson bird took some of the winter garden for the Queen Victoria

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lasuvidaboy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4527

posted 07-30-2008 01:13 AM

Love those period rooms onboard. The Spanish style smoking room looks like many of the buildings build here in Southern California during our Golden Age of architecture between WW1 and WWII. Thanks for posting!

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Vaccaro
First Class Passenger
Member # 465

posted 07-30-2008 05:36 AM

quote:
Originally posted by linerguy:
.... I paid about $25 for this several years ago.
Russ

A very well spent money! Superb and rare pictures there, thanks a lot Russ for sharing them with us.

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Maasdam
First Class Passenger
Member # 3858

posted 07-30-2008 09:02 AM

quote:
Originally posted by linerguy:
I have uploaded a wonderful 1926 interior booklet for the Carinthia and Franconia on my site. I paid about $25 for this several years ago. Here's the link:
Booklet
Russ

Great deal fore such fabulous brochure. Love it, i have some of HAL. Love this stuff. Thanks fore uploading.

Greetings Ben.

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Cunard Fan
First Class Passenger
Member # 7530

posted 07-30-2008 05:59 PM

Beautiful! I love the spanish style onboard!

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linerguy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4289

posted 07-30-2008 09:54 PM

Thanks everyone. Yes, it is a fantastic interior booklet; I'll be posting more soon.

Although the internet is a great tool for getting info and photos, it's still a shame that cruise lines no longer publish booklets like this.

-Russ

[ 07-31-2008: Message edited by: linerguy ]

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SCOTT H
First Class Passenger
Member # 6831

posted 07-30-2008 11:35 PM

In a word, amazing. That was truly the era when ship were floating palaces!! Thanks for sharing!!

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Lubber
First Class Passenger
Member # 13710

posted 07-31-2008 08:08 AM

quote:
Originally posted by lasuvidaboy:
Love those period rooms onboard. The Spanish style smoking room looks like many of the buildings build here in Southern California during our Golden Age of architecture between WW1 and WWII. Thanks for posting!

I agree; that was incredible.

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Linerrich
First Class Passenger
Member # 4864

posted 07-31-2008 08:19 AM

Russ, thanks for sharing--I have this booklet too, and what makes it so special is that all the photos are colorized. I've got these interior books for ALL of the Cunard & White Star liners of the 20th Century, and every one (at least pre-War) is in black & white. Quite a little treasure!

Rich

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Ernst
First Class Passenger
Member # 5369

posted 07-31-2008 08:57 AM

The booklet is lovely indeed. Nice to see your page growing.

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linerguy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4289

posted 07-31-2008 09:44 AM

Thanks.

One of the things that's interesting about the booklet is the blurb on the title page. It states that the photographs were taken on board the ships (obviously!) and 'in color'. Perhaps they could fool folks in 1926 but, today, we know better. As Rich states, they were simply colorized black and white shots; but, in fairness, it's some of the best colorization I've ever seen.

Rich, I'm sure you and I have the same lot of brochures and, now that you mention it, they are all black and white (or color renderings).

-Russ

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jeffrossatsea
First Class Passenger
Member # 2962

posted 07-31-2008 11:29 PM

i also have this brochure and have enjoyed looking at it many times...my uncle use to work on the CARINTHIA and when i showed him the brochure he fell in love reminising (sp.) about the ship and what he got away with while on board..."never a dull day" he said....jeff

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lasuvidaboy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4527

posted 08-01-2008 12:48 AM

quote:
Originally posted by linerguy:
As Rich states, they were simply colorized black and white shots; but, in fairness, it's some of the best colorization I've ever seen.

-Russ

Some images are not as well colorized as others but some are fantatsic. The different shades of the tapestry upholstery and the reflection of the water in the pool are excellent. The wood paneling near the pool looks colorized but the rest of the space was very well done.

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DAMBROSI
First Class Passenger
Member # 100

posted 08-01-2008 02:43 PM

Excellent photos, I wish they would build them like that. Loved the swimming pool area.

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