Ships Through the Ages: Ultra-Modern Liner - "Queen Mary"
Ships Through the Ages: Ultra-Modern Liner - "Queen Mary"
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Ships Through the Ages: Ultra-Modern Liner - "Queen Mary"
Description:
Completed in 1936, the Queen Mary was a colossal ship in both size and cost. It was an extraordinary example of modern shipbuilding and was built in response to similar express super-liners constructed in Germany, Italy, and France in the 1920s and 1930s. The interior of the Queen Mary ultra-liner featured state of the art facilities: indoor swimming pools, libraries, a music studio and lecture hall, beauty salons, and grand dining halls outfitted in Art Deco designs.
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Description of ship written in 1935.
The “Queen Mary” retired from service in 1967. She is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Notes (historical):
Ships Through the Ages, originally four murals painted by Frederic Leonard King between 1934 and 1935, was commissioned as part of the Public Works of Art Project for the Jeffries Point Branch of the Boston Public Library. In 1956, the Jeffries Point Branch closed, and the murals were divided into smaller paintings and relocated to the East Boston Branch Library where they are currently on display; however, several sections of the murals are missing.
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