Advertising: Travel to the Americas
This is a collection of photos collection of images of advertisements and ephemera related to emigration from Russia by Germans who lived there during the Imperial and Soviet regimes. It serves to illustrate the means by which Germans learned about and made travel plans to leave their homes in Russia and seek freedom and opportunities in North and South America.
Travel arrangements were made by agents who would book train tickets out of Russia to shipping ports west. The arrangements including any connections, including train tickets to the new immigrants' final destination...or at least as far as the railroad tracks went.
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G. Wolff Jr., Hamburg (1914)
Advertisement for travel to the United States and Canada using travel agent G. Wolff, Jr., of Hamburg, Germany. Travel arrangements to North and South America via the Hamburg America Line. Ad appeared in the Illustrated Molotschnaer Volks-Kalendar for German Settlers in Southern Russia.
Date: 1914
Source: Illustrierter Molotschnaer Volks-Kalender für die deutschen Ansiedler in Süd-Russland auf das Jahr nach Christi Geburt .... 34. Jahrgang (1914). Prischib.
Collection/Repository: Digitales Forum Mittel- & Osteuropa (DiFMOE). BibliotheksVerbund Bayern.
URL: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-ubr13927-5
Translation:
Cheapest fares
Good catering
G. Wolff Jr., Hamburg
Passenger transport to Canada, North and South America with direct East and South. Travel on the fast steamships of the Hamburg-America-Line without changing lines. Every traveller gets a direct ticket to all railway stations in Canada and the United States. More detailed information is available free of charge. Every inquiry will be answered promptly. Write trustfully to the general agency.
G. Wolff Jr., Hamburg
Glockengießerwall 13 [Hamburg]
Red Star Line (1904)
Red Star Line advertisement for travel to ports in the United States from Antwerp, Belgium. Ad appeared in the 1906 issue of Neuer Haus- und Landwirtschaftskalender für deutsche Ansiedler im südlichen Russland. Date: 1906
Source: Neuer Haus- und Landwirtschaftskalender für deutsche Ansiedler im südlichen Russland. 1906. Odessa.
Collection/Repository: BibliotheksVerbund Bayern. DiFMOE.
URL: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-ubr13400-7
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_Line
Translation:
Red Star Line
Regular and Direct Steam Vessels between
Antwerp and New York
Antwerp and Boston
Antwerp and Philadelphia
Directly, without reloading.
The fleet consists of following new steamers:
Finland, Kroonland, Vaderland, Zeeland, Marquette, Menominee, Manitou, Rhyland, Nederladnd.
All steamers and vessels for this voyage have been built according to the regulations for the highest level of safety.
The new twin-screw steamers make the journey from Antwerp to New York in about 9 days; it corresponds to a real
Ocean cruise of 7 1/2 days
The 3rd class is divided into divisions for men, families and individual women. The load chambers of 10-16 beds are divided into two sections; the middle section is free for tables and benches and serves as a dining room; the double-screw steamers are also divided into 2, 4 and 6 beds for families. The food is plentiful and milling and alternates; it is administered by the passengers and does not need to be brought to them at the smell. There are guards in the women's department. Straw mattresses, head cushions, blankets and dinnerware tame the passengers on board free of charge.
Only direct mail line from Antwerp to North America
Direct tickets at original prices to all stations of the United States of America and Canada.
For all information please contact [travel offices]:
22, Kammenstraat, Antwerp
9 Broadway, New York
Lamb Title Building, Philadelphia
Broad and Sandford Streets, Philadelphia
Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen (1913)
Advertisement or the North German Lloyd steamer line out of Bremen, Germany. Ad appeared in the 1913 edition of the Illustrated Molotschner Volks-Kalendar.
Date: 1913
Source: Illustrierter Molotschnaer Volks-Kalender für die deutschen Ansiedler in Süd-Russland 1913. Prischib.
Collection/Repository: Digitales Forum Mittel- & Osteuropa (DiFMOE). BibliotheksVerbund Bayern.
Landau & Co., Bremen (1911)
Advertisement for passenger travel arranged by the Landau & Co. out of Bremen, Germany. Ad appeared in the 1911 edition of the Deutscher Volkskalender für Stadt und Land, published in Odessa.
Date: 1911.
Source: Deutscher Volkskalender für Stadt und Land 1911. Odessa.
Collection/Repository: Digitales Forum Mittel- & Osteuropa (DiFMOE). BibliotheksVerbund Bayern.
URL: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-ubr13841-2
Translation:
Anyone wishing to travel to America should contact the office, which has been in existence since 1885:
Landau and Company in Bremen
Sale of ship tickets for the fastest and largest steamships to New York, Baltimore, Galveston, Canada, Buenos Aires, etc. with railroad tickets to all North and South America, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Ohio, Michigan, Manitoba, Alberta, Saskatchewan etc.
Information on fares and steamer departures is provided without charge, and all inquiries are answered quickly and thoroughly.
Address for letters: Landau & Co. Bremen.
Telegrams: Landau, Bremen.
F. Missler, Bremen (1934)
Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen (1934)
"The fastest way to America."
Red Star Line Timetable (20 July 1910)
Brochure for passenger travel and mail transportation on the Red Star Line from 1910. Cover page include the locations of the company's offices in the United States, Canada and Belgium. Back cover page notes mail and passenger service schedule between New York and Antwerp for the second half of 1910.
Source: Red Star Line
Postcard of the Hamburg-American steamship line at the docks in Hoboken, New Jersey. Date: circa 1914
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Postcard of the Hamburg-American steamship line at the docks in Hoboken, New Jersey. Date: circa 1914
Source: Wikimedia Commons
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