Object Details
- International Silver Company
- Description
- This butter dish, substantially similar to another one from Leviathan in the Smithsonian's collections (1991.0856.37), is decorated with the emblem adopted by the new owners of the United States Lines in 1929.
- The ocean liner Leviathan was built as the Vaterland for Germany's Hamburg-American Line in 1914. During World War I the American government seized the ship and operated it as a troopship. After a complete reconditioning at Newport News, Virginia, in 1922-23, the Leviathan became the flagship of the new United States Lines, which operated it for the U.S. Shipping Board until 1929. Subsequently sold into private hands, the ship ran until 1934. Laid up as a result of high operating costs and low Depression-era patronage, the Leviathan was sold to Scottish shipbreakers in 1938 and dismantled.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Frank O. Braynard, Sea Cliff, New York
- ca 1929
- used date
- 1929-1931
- ID Number
- 1991.0856.38
- catalog number
- 1991.0856.38
- accession number
- 1991.0856
- Object Name
- Plate, Butter
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/2 in; x 8.89 cm
- Associated Place
- United States: New York
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- Work and Industry: Maritime
- America on the Move
- Transportation
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1102374
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-7405-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
