KP/JK/5/1 - Orient Line to Australia (Colombo) pamphlet

Reference code

KP/JK/5/1

Level of description

Item

Title

Orient Line to Australia (Colombo) pamphlet

Date/s

24/11/1938-12/1/1939

Quantity & Format

1 Pamphlets

Creator

Orient Steam Navigation Company, Ltd.

Scope and content

During the 1920s and 1930s, Jessie Kenney (1887-1985) worked for the Furness and Orient lines, travelling around the world. She kept this information pamphlet from an Orient Line journey to Australia. It describes stopovers on the Suez Canal, Port Said, Cairo (Egypt) and Colombo (Sri Lanka). The descriptions are clearly aimed at European travellers and are often dismissive of native cultures such as the following related to Cairo: “Cairo, in fact, is now a modern Europeanised city, with the largest population Africa. The population is immensely varied and in itself affords an amusing study. Apart from the modern city there remains a large native quarter as intricate and as squalid as the native quarters of other African cities.”

Conditions governing reproduction

Existence and location of copies

A digital copy may be viewed at Suffragette Stories: https://suffragettestories.omeka.net/items/show/127

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