Rigged Model, Steamship <i>Philadelphia</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1911-07-10
label: used date
content: 1889-1923
notes: label: Description
content: This ship model depicts the American Line passenger ship <i>Philadelphia</i> as it was rebuilt and renamed after extensive repairs of improvements in 1901. The model was built by Gustav Grahn and Gustav Grahn, Jr. of New York built this ship model as in 1891. The ship was originally built for Britain's Inman Line as the <i>City of Paris</i> in 1889. She became the <i>Paris</i> in 1893 when her owners transferred her and her sister ship the <i>City of New York</i> to American registry in a business and political maneuver designed to secure a lucrative U.S. mail subsidy. The ship served as an auxiliary cruiser in the Spanish American War and as a troopship in World War I.
label: Description
content: Strong competition for passengers—aided by shipbuilding advances, marine-engine improvements, and increased government regulation—led to a substantial increase in the size, speed, and comfort of ocean liners by the end of the nineteenth century. Particularly after 1870, new steamers appeared every few years that were hailed in the press and in advertising as more spacious, better appointed, swifter, and safer than anything that had sailed before. While the biggest and grandest ocean liners were built for the run between Europe and the United States, less renowned steamships carried passengers and emigrants on dozens of routes across the globe.
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: New York
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: America on the Move
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content: Transportation
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content: Ship Models
label: Exhibition
content: Artifact Walls
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.271111
label: catalog number
content: 271111
label: accession number
content: 52985
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Steamship
label: Object Name
content: model, steamship
label: Other Terms
content: Steamship; Maritime
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 148 in x 21 in; x 375.92 cm x 53.34 cm