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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

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From British Technological Marvel to Wartime Atrocity Victim:

The Meaning of the Lusitania in Early-Twentieth-Century Postcards

James M. FarrellUniversity of New Hampshire

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The Royal Mail Ship Lusitania

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Steam Ship Lusitania

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Travel, Adventure, Romance

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Arriving Liverpool

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New York Harbor

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Docked at Liverpool

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Romance of Travel

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Technological Marvel

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Source of British Pride

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Engineering Fascination

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“Greyhound of the Ocean”

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Smoke as Sign

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Comparing Achievements

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First Class Luxury

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Class Distinction & Taste

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Familiar Surroundings

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Our Kind of People

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Hands Across the Sea

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Stevengraph Postcards

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Small World Diplomacy

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Ill-fated Cunard Liner

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Sunk 7 May 1915

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Indignation

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German Propaganda

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“The Cunard steamer ‘Lusitania’ has been torpedoed and sunk.”

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Graphic Novel Series

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Postcard Propaganda

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