[RMS TITANIC]. White Star Line: Types of World Famous Liners. Liverpool: The Liverpool Printing & Stationery Company, Ltd., [1924].

Overall sheet 40 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. Original White Star Line lithograph poster advertising the transatlantic ocean liners RMS Olympic, Majestic, Homeric, Calgeric, Albertic, and others. A central white star is superimposed atop a globe with the Majestic at its center and the Olympic below (evidence of restoration). Provenance: Acquired Profiles in History, 17 October 2014, Sale 65 Lot 575.

As war reparations for the losses of numerous ships during the First World War, the White Star Line was awarded the German-built liners Berlin, Columbus, and Bismarck (later renamed Arabic, Homeric, and Majestic). At 56,551 tons the Majestic became the largest ship in the White Star fleet and, together with the RMS Titanic's sister ship Olympic, became one of the company's most popular and profitable ships. The early 1920s proved to be a boomtime for transatlantic travel, as many immigrants desperate to create new lives for themselves in the United States emigrated in record numbers which would eventually lead to the drafting and passage of the Immigration Act of 1924. The design used here is based on a similar poster design advertising the Olympic and Titanic shortly before the latter's ill-fated maiden voyage.