SS Mongolia (1903)
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SS Mongolia was a 13,369-ton passenger-and-cargo liner originally built for Pacific Mail Steamship Company in 1904. She later sailed as USS Mongolia for the U.S. Navy, as SS President Fillmore for the
SS Mongolia by Fred Pansing
Steerage
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Steerage is a term for the lowest category of passenger accommodation in a ship. In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, considerable numbers of persons travelled from their homeland to seek a
SS Mongolia (1903)
…accommodations of both ships reflected the importance of Chinese emigration to shipping lines of that era: 350 first-class, 68 second-class, and 1,300 steerage. In early August 1915, Pacific Mail announced it could not affordably meet the language clause of the Seamen's Act in the Far East and intended to cease…
The Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz. Taken in 1907 on the Kaiser Wilhelm II The middle-class passengers on the upper deck are looking down on steerage passengers below.
Steerage Emigrants, print after Arthur Boyd Houghton
Chinese steerage passengers, on board the S.S. China en route to Hawaii in 1901