Red Star Line Poster Westernland Ship Poster
- ca 1930s
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19 x 25 inches ~ (48 x 63 cm)
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The Red Star Line was a shipping line founded in 1871 as a joint venture between the International Navigation Company of Philadelphia, which also ran the American Line, and the Société Anonyme de Navigation Belgo-Américaine of Antwerp, Belgium. The company's main ports of call were Antwerp in Belgium, Liverpool and Southampton in the United Kingdom and New York City and Philadelphia in the United States.
This poster show the 2nd Westernland. Launched in 1918 for White Star Line as Regina. Transferred to Red Star Line in 1930 and renamed Westernland.] Albert Einstein traveled to the United States aboard Westernland in 1933 and remained after learning Nazis had confiscated his possessions.