RMS Campania Ephemera Collection
All Digitized Ephemera for the RMS Campania available at the GG Archives. Common items of ephemera in our maritime collection include passenger lists, brochures, event and entertainment programs, and other memorabilia produced for a voyage or ship.
1895-05-18 RMS Campania Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Cunard Line
- Class of Passengers: Saloon
- Date of Departure: 18 May 1895
- Route: Liverpool to New York
- Commander: Captain Henry Walker
1895-06-29 SS Campania Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Cunard Line
- Class of Passengers: Saloon
- Date of Departure: 29 June 1895
- Route: New York to Liverpool via Queenstown (Cobh)
- Commander: Captain W. H. P. Hains
1895-08-31 SS Campania Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Cunard Line
- Class of Passengers: Saloon
- Date of Departure: 31 August 1895
- Route: New York to Liverpool via Queenstown (Cobh)
- Commander: Captain W. H. P. Hains
1895-10-12 RMS Campania Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Cunard Line
- Class of Passengers: Saloon
- Date of Departure: 12 October 1895
- Route: Liverpool to New York
- Commander: Captain W. H. P. Hains
1897-04-07 Immigrant Passage Contract - Sweden to New York
Contract for a 25 year-old Swedish servant, immigrating to America from Gothenburg, Sweden on 7 April 1897 on board the Cunard Line SS Campania.
1898-09-03 RMS Campania Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Cunard Line
- Class of Passengers: Saloon
- Date of Departure: 3 September 1898
- Route: Liverpool to New York
- Commander: Captain H. Walker
1898-09-10 RMS Campania Breakfast Menu Card with Liquor List
Nineteenth Century Bill of Fare Card with a Liquor by the Drink List on the reverse side, served on board the RMS Campania of the Cunard Line. Breakfast Bill of Fare featured Fried Plaice, Broiled Finnan Haddin and Smoked Wiltshire Bacon.
1899-09-23 RMS Campania Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Cunard Line
- Class of Passengers: Saloon
- Date of Departure: 23 September 1899
- Route: Liverpool to New York
- Commander: Captain J. B. Watt
1901-10-19 RMS Campania Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Cunard Line
- Class of Passengers: Cabin and Second Class
- Date of Departure: 19 October 1901
- Route: Liverpool to New York
- Commander: Captain H. Walker
1902 - The Story of the Cunard Line
Cunard Steamship Company, Limited, one of the oldest and most famous of British steam navigation undertakings elected to remain independent and outside the scope of the great Trust. This is their Story as published by BUSINESS ILLUSTRATED. December 1902. Lavishly Illustrated including Interior Photographs. Ships Featured: Britannia, Scotia, Russia, Servia, Umbria, Etruria, Campania, Lucania, Ivernia, Saxonia
1908-01-19 RMS Campania Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Cunard Line
- Class of Passengers: Saloon
- Date of Departure: 19 January 1908
- Route: Liverpool to New York via Queenstown (Cobh)
- Commander: Captain D. Dow, R.D., R.N.R.
1908-01-24 Cunard Daily Bulletin - RMS Campania Edition
Cunard Daily Bulletin, RMS Campania Edition, provided readers with plenty of advertisements, short stories, Saloon Passenger List for this voyage, Marconigrams, Views of the RMS Mauretania, TSS Carpathia, RMS Carmania and Caronia, and the RMS Lusitania.
8-Page Booklet/Leaflet from 1910 titled "Famous Cunarders" provided an illustrated introduction to their "A"-List Cunard fleet including the Campania, Carmania & Caronia, Carpathia, Lusitania & Mauretania, Pannonia, and the Saxonia & Ivernia.
1910-06-04 Ticket Receipt for Third Class Passage - Cunard Line
Memorandum of a Ticket Issued By The Cunard Steam Ship Co. Ltd. For Third Class Passage on the RMS Campania of the Cunard Line of Mail Steamers From Liverpool or Queenstown to New York or Boston Or From Fiume or Trieste to New York.
1910-07-16 RMS Campania Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Cunard Line
- Class of Passengers: Cabin and Second Class
- Date of Departure: 16 July 1910
- Route: Liverpool to New York
- Commander: Captain R. C. Warr
1910-09-24 RMS Campania Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Cunard Line
- Class of Passengers: Saloon
- Date of Departure: 24 September 1910
- Route: Liverpool to New York via Queenstown (Cobh)
- Commander: Captain R. C. Warr
1911-07-03 Charity Entertainment Program - RMS Campania
Variety show style entertainment program performed onboard the RMS Campania of the Cunard Line to benefit various Liverpool and New York seamen's charitable organizations. The Liverpool Seamen's Orphan Institution was highlighted in this program.
1913 Cunard Passenger Log Book
Rare Third-Class Accommodation on Cunard Liners featuring interior and exterior photographs of the ships and accommodations for third class/steerage passengers. Undated brochure circa 1913. Its contents were meant to entice the immigrants to book passage to the New World. Ships Featured: Lusitania and Mauretania, Caronia and Carmania, Franconia and Laconia, Campania, Ivernia and Saxonia, and the Ascania.
Ephemera contained in the GG Archives collection represent the souvenirs provided to the passengers of each voyage. Many of these souvenir ephemeral items have disappeared over the years.
Our selection varies considerably by ship, and likely contains only a sampling of what was originally produced and printed by the steamship lines.
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Images of the RMS Campania
RMS Campania of the Cunard Line on the River Mersey circa 1900. Library of Congres # 2002708357. GGA Image ID # 141424d301
