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✅ Saloon Passenger List — SS Marquette(Atlantic Transport Line) — 1 June 1899
🗺 North Atlantic Track Chart + Memorandum of Log — completed + route plotted by a passenger


✍️Passenger mark (half-arrow) by “Mr. Alfred White” (likely the original owner)


📌Folded vertically; spine separations noted — priced accordingly

 

 

Artists, Editors, and Infamy: SS Marquette Saloon Passenger List (1 June 1899)

 

🚢 Overview

 

Offered here is an exceptional Saloon Passenger List from the SS Marquette of the Atlantic Transport Line,departing London for New York on 1 June 1899, commanded by Captain Thomas F. Gates.

 

This is more than a list of names—its standout feature is the passenger-completed North Atlantic Track Chart and Memorandum of Log,with dates, latitude/longitude, miles traveled, and weather remarks recorded during the crossing, plus the route tracked directly on the chart.

 

What makes this one special: a documented elite voyage + a hand-completed navigation log and plotted track—a true “voyage artifact,” not just ephemera.

 

 

🛳 Voyage & Ship Details

 

 

 

⚓ About the SS Marquette (ATL)

 

Launched in the late 1890s for the Atlantic Transport Line,the Marquette represents the era’s blend of luxury passenger traveland high-value cargo efficiency—designed to serve a clientele that expected comfort, reliability, and modern steamship speed on the North Atlantic run.

 

 

🏴‍☠️ Brief History of the Atlantic Transport Line

 

The Atlantic Transport Line (ATL) was known for combining upscale saloon accommodations with a strong commercial cargo operation, positioning itself for travelers who wanted a premium crossing without the showmanship of some rival “palace ship” lines. Its passenger listsand printed materials are especially appealing for the line’s crisp branding and transatlantic route documentation.

 

 

🎨 Cover & Design Highlights

 

Front Cover: A refined maritime design featuring the ATL Company Flag in a seascape, with elegant “Atlantic Transport Line”typography and printed office addresses for London and New York.

Back Cover: A North Atlantic Track Chart plusa Memorandum of Log—both used by the passenger, making the backcover a major draw for collectors.

 

 

🌟 Notable & Research-Worthy Passengers (Highlights)

 

This passenger list captures an elite cross-section of transatlantic society—arts, journalism, medicine, and notoriety:

 

 

 

🔍 Research & Genealogical Interest

 

 

 

🧑‍✈️ Senior Officers and Staff (as listed)

 

  1. Commander: Captain T. F. Gates
  2. Surgeon: H. Cock
  3. Chief Engineer: D. MacDonald

 

These details tie the artifact to a specific voyage and command team—useful for cross-checking with arrival records and contemporary shipping references.

 

 

🖼 Images Included with This Listing

 

  1. Front Cover
  2. List of Saloon Passengers (interior pages)
  3. Back Cover — Track Chart + Memorandum of Log (completed)
  4. Back & Front Covers (2 pages)

 

 

🧾 Condition Report

 

Overall Condition: FAIR

 

 

Collector note: The wear is real, but so is the payoff—the filled log + plotted track elevates this into a personal,voyage-specific artifact.

 

 

📜 Saloon Passengers (Full List — Unabridged)

 

  1. Mr. E. J. Ashwell
  2. Mrs. Ashwell
  3. Mr. Ralph W. Appleby
  4. Mrs. Appleby
  5. Mr. R. H. Baker
  6. Mr. E. J. Barnard
  7. Mrs. Barnard
  8. Miss Bedford
  9. Mr. R. D. Blumenfeld (Note 1)
  10. Mrs. Blumenfeld (Teresa Blumfeld (1892-1948))
  11. Master David Blumenfeld (Note 4)
  12. Mr. C. Bontein
  13. Mrs. Bontein
  14. Mr. Turner E. Brashear
  15. Mrs. Brashear and Infant
  16. Miss Esther Brashear
  17. Master Irwin Brashear
  18. Master Ernest Brashear (Brashear, Ernest G.)
  19. Master Alvin Brashear
  20. Miss Marie Burke
  21. Miss Burmester and Maid
  22. Mr. Phillip H. Burrell
  23. Mr. Henry Cane
  24. Mrs. Cane
  25. Mr. Lewin Campbell
  26. Mr. Milton Campbell
  27. Mr. A. B. Clark
  28. Mrs. Clark and child
  29. Mr. Alson S. Clark (Note 2)
  30. Mr. H. H. Crippen (Note 3)
  31. Mr. Frank Cuyler (1863 - 1941)
  32. Mr. Ralph Dearlove
  33. Mr. G. E. Dowden
  34. Mr. J. F. Dunwoody (Note 5)
  35. Mrs. Fuego and Infant
  36. Mr. J. Franklin Gallagher
  37. Mr. J. R. Geary
  38. Rev. F. S. Greenhalgh
  39. Mr. H. Hague
  40. Mr. H. Hardinge
  41. Mr. R. E. Heggie
  42. Mr. H. W. Herr
  43. Mr. R. W. St. Hill
  44. Mr. Arthur Hickie
  45. Mr. Charles Hodgson
  46. Miss E. Kalisher
  47. Miss C. Kalisher
  48. Mr. E. David Keeble
  49. Col. L. Lake
  50. Mr. Duff G. Lake
  51. Mr. Henry E. Longwell
  52. Miss Harriett Lyman
  53. Dr. Mahe
  54. Mrs. Mahe
  55. Mr. F. Marriott
  56. Miss Zurtar Metzian
  57. Miss Edna Middlemitch
  58. Mr. C. J. Miller
  59. Mr. M. Moffatt
  60. Mr. George Patterson (Note 6)
  61. Mr. G. Paulding
  62. Mr. D. West Petus
  63. Mr. Alfred Piper, Jr.
  64. Mr. J. L. Pollitt
  65. Mrs. Pollitt
  66. Mr. Rawson
  67. Mrs. Rawson
  68. Miss Rawson
  69. Miss E. M. Requa
  70. Mrs. Robinson
  71. Mrs. Amy Robinson
  72. Mr. H. B. Sherwin
  73. Mrs. Sherwin
  74. Mr. Vernon D. Shutte
  75. Miss Ada Stanley
  76. Mrs. Emil Stehli (Note 7)
  77. Mr. H. J. Taylor
  78. Mr. Joseph Turner
  79. Mrs. Turner
  80. Master H. C. Turner
  81. Rev. S. S. Vannerman
  82. Mrs. Vannerman
  83. Miss Amy Vannerman
  84. Miss Dorothy Vannerman
  85. Miss Irene Vannerman
  86. Mr. L. Watkins
  87. Mr. Alfred White
  88. Mr. George Wilson
  89. Miss Jennie Wright
  90. Miss M. L. Wyatt

 

 

Notes About Passengers

 

  1. Ralph David Blumenfeld (pen name R.D.B., 1864 –1948) was an American-born journalist, writer, and newspaper editor who is chiefly notable for having been in charge of the British newspaper Daily Express from 1904 to 1932. Politically, Blumenfeld was a strong supporter of laissez-faire economics and a harsh critic of socialism; to this end, he established the Anti-Socialist Union in 1908 and succeeded in linking the group closely to the Conservative Party.
  2. Alson Skinner Clark (1876 –1949) was an American Impressionist painter best remembered for his landscapes. He was also a photographer, plein-air painter, art educator, and muralist. He spent much of his early career working in Paris, France, and served in the United States Army as an aerial photographer during World War I. In the 1920s, he taught fine art at Occidental College, and by 1919, he was director of the Stickney Memorial Art School in Pasadena.
  3. Mr. H. H. Crippen Hawley Harvey Crippen (11 September 1862 – 23 November 1910), usually known as Dr. Crippen, was an American physician hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, England, on 23 November 1910, for the murder of his wife. He has gone down in history as the first criminal to be captured with the aid of wireless communication. After living at various addresses around London, Crippen and his wife Cora finally moved to No. 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden Road, Holloway, where they took in lodgers to augment Crippen's meagre income. Cora had an affair with one of these lodgers, and, in turn, Crippen took Le Neve as his mistress in 1908. During his first questioning by Chief Inspector Walter Dew on 8 July,[14] Crippen admitted that he had fabricated the story about his wife having died, claiming that he did so to avoid personal embarrassment because she had in fact left him and fled to the US with one of her lovers, a music hall actor named Bruce Miller. Dew was satisfied with Crippen's story and searched the house, finding nothing. However, Crippen and Le Neve assumed Dew had more evidence than he had and fled in panic to Brussels, where they spent the night at a hotel. The following day, they went to Antwerp and boarded the Canadian Pacific liner SS Montrose, bound for Canada. The couple's disappearance led police to perform further searches of the house. The fourth and final search was on 12-13 July, during which they found the torso of a human body buried under the brick floor of the basement.[14] Senior scientific analyst to the Home Office, William Willcox, found traces of the toxic compound hyoscine hydrobromide (scopolamine) in the torso.[15] The remains were identified as Cora's by a piece of skin from the abdomen; the head, limbs, and skeleton were never recovered. The remains were later interred at the St Pancras and Islington Cemetery, East Finchley. Before he was executed, Crippen wrote a letter to Ethel Le Neve. In it, he said, "Face to face with God, I believe that facts will be forthcoming to prove my innocence." It is claimed that modern forensic science has now fulfilled his prophecy. In December 2009, the UK's Criminal Cases Review Commission, having reviewed the case, declared that the Court of Appeal would not hear the case to posthumously pardon Crippen.
  4. Wikipedia only lists John Elliot Blumenfeld, not David Blumenfeld's son, John Elliot, who was born on 6 May 1898. He went on to become the assistant editor of the Evening Standard from 1922 to 1925. In his later career, he served as the acting General Manager of the Southern Railway, the Chairman of the Railway Executive, and finally the Chairman of London Transport.
  5. The person referred to as Mr. J. F. Dunwoody was an American businessman and Confederate Civil War veteran, primarily known in the late 1800s for his involvement in the flour milling industry in Missouri and his military service. J. F. Dunwoody was a "pioneer miller in Southwest Missouri". He established the Brand-Dunwoody Milling Company in Lamar, Missouri, in or before 1884, with Henry C. Brand and his brothers. He moved to Joplin, Missouri, in 1895, where the company continued to operate. He was married to the sister of his business partner, Henry C. Brand.
  6. George Patterson: Possibly George Robert Patterson (1863 – 1906) was an American businessman and politician who served three terms as a Republican member of the US House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1901 until he died in 1906.
  7. Mrs. Emil Stehli was Marguerite Jennet Stehli (née Zweifel) (1874-1959). Emil Stehli's brother-in-law, Maximilian Josef Frölicher (1851-1913), and his wife, Margaretha ("Gritli") Emerentia Stehli (née Frölicher), and their daughter, Hedwig, were among the survivors of the Titanic disaster in April 1912.

 

 

📦 Packaging & Shipping

 

Ships flat (never rolled) with archival protection: sleeve + rigid reinforcement + careful stabilization in a sturdy mailer/box. Shipped via USPS Ground Advantage (Priority Mail when appropriate or by request). Tracking included and insured for the sale amount. Signature confirmation is used on orders $500+ (and is required for $750+).


Your item ships with a neatly printed copy of the full description + a packing list (binder-ready), each in a separate open-top protector. The item itself is housed in a heavy-duty archival secure top flap sheet protector (when size permits) and labeled for easy filing.


Careful packing is part of the value here — I want it to arrive like a collectible, not like paperwork.