(Travel and Immigration) Circular, 505 x 310 mm. (19 7/8 x 12 1/4 in.), ([Liverpool?, 1910]), advertising rates for the Cunard Line as of 11 April, 1910. Featuring a dramatic image of the steamer Mauretania, the circular details rates from Liverpool and Queenstown to New York and Boston aboard Cunard’s entire Atlantic fleet of Royal Mail steamers including the Mauetania, Lusitania, Carmania, Caronia, Franconia, Campania, Saxonia, Ivernia, Sylvania, Carpatia, Ultonia and Pannonia.

The most interesting reading is perhaps on the verso. Entitled “INFORMATION FOR THIRD CLASS PASSENGERS” which details meals, accommodations and the other amenities of steerage. Immigrants into the United States are warned, “That the following classes of aliens shall be excluded from admission into the United States: All idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded persons, epileptics, insane persons, and persons who have been insane within five years previous; persons who have had two or more attacks of insanity at any time previously; paupers; persons likely to become a public charge; professional beggars; persons afflicted with tuberculosis or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease; persons not comprehended within any of the foregoing exclude classes who are found to be and are certified by the examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such mental or physical defect being of a nature which may affect the ability of such alien to earn a living… polygamists, or persons who admit their belief in the practice of polygamy, anarchists, or persons who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States, or of all government, or of all forms of law, or the assassination of public officials; prostitutes, or women or girls coming into the United States for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose…” Apart from other restrictions, the circular advises that “In view of stringent regulations now prevailing at the various United States Ports for the landing of immigrants, the United States Commissioner has called attention too the large number of passengers arriving destitute of funds, in consequence of which many are being deported. All passengers must have at least $25 (£5) in addition to through rail ticket to destination, and families must have a larger amount as circumstances may require.”

Minor partial fold separations, a few chips and minor tears at margin, uneven toning on verso, else good to very good overall. Piece has been stored folded and will be shipped in the same manner.

(EXA 5348) $525