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From British Technological Marvel
to Wartime Atrocity Victim:
The Meaning of the Lusitania in
Early-Twentieth-Century Postcards
James M. Farrell
University of New Hampshire
The Royal Mail Ship Lusitania
Steam Ship Lusitania
Travel, Adventure, Romance
Arriving Liverpool
New York Harbor
Docked at Liverpool
Romance of Travel
Technological Marvel
Source of British Pride
Engineering Fascination
“Greyhound of the Ocean”
Smoke as Sign
Comparing Achievements
First Class Luxury
Class Distinction & Taste
Familiar Surroundings
Our Kind of People
Hands Across the Sea
Stevengraph Postcards
Small World Diplomacy
Ill-fated Cunard Liner
Sunk 7 May 1915
Indignation
German Propaganda
“The Cunard steamer ‘Lusitania’
has been torpedoed and sunk.”
Graphic Novel Series
Postcard Propaganda
Postcards as Propaganda

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