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Cruise Ship History: Laurence Miller donates steamship memorabilia to Miami’s Wolfsonian-FIU Museum

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This is a luggage label for Cunard White Star Cruises dating back to 1949. The label is part of the Laurence Miller Collection of ocean liner and cruise ship materials at The Wolfsonian-Florida International University in Miami Beach. 

From the MIAMI HERALD
Posted on Fri, Dec. 26, 2008
Laurence Miller donates memorabilia to Wolfsonian

BY TANIA VALDEMORO
A former university official donated his extensive collection of vintage ocean liner and cruise ship memorabilia — such as menus, stationery and deck plans — to the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum earlier this month.  Laurence Miller, former executive director of Florida International University’s libraries, started amassing his collection, which also includes postcards and brochures, in the 1950s.

Those 15,000 to 20,000 items, which span between the years 1950 and 2000, now complement the museum’s own collection of cruise ship memorabilia from the 1930s and 1940s. [Read more...]

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