The Golden Caribbean Reached By United Fruit Company's Steamships Direct Service From Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile, New Oreleans To Jamaica, Cuba, Central & South America

United Fruit Company'S Steamships

Publication: Privately printed, 1904, NP

Volume III. No. 1. November, 1904. 9 1/2" x 8 1/2," folded in half. 28pp including wrappers. Illustrations. Schedules. Advertisements. Map. Front wrapper printed in yellows and blues and shows an illustration of on of the United Fruit company's steamers with illustration draped in banana leaves. Inside front wrapper is an illustration of the Hotel Tichfield located in Port Antoni. Rear wrapper offers a system map of the United Fruit Company's Steamship Lines. Inside rear wrapper are advertisements for the Constant Spring Hotel and the Myrtle Bank Hotel, both in Kingston. Double-column text. Account of a visit to Jamaica via the steamer Admiral Farragut. Information on the topography of Jamaica, the Americans' appetite for bananas, making Jamaica a very prosperous island; discusses Montego Bay, Kingston and what they have to offer; the mineral springs in Jamaica and their benefits; detailed information on the new Hotel Titchfield which will open in 1905; the new Steamship San Jose commanded by Capt. William Owen; etc. 4 pages of schedules and rates; a listing of the officers of the United Fruit Company. Information for passengers. Listing of hotels and boarding houses in Jamaica. 6 pages of advertiesments. Rubbing and splitting to head and toe of spine and with heavy rubbing to include 1" split to head of fold and with holes along the split. Additionally, agent stamp to front wrapper. A very interesting brochure.

Inventory Number: 51642