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Ticket of Passage - Issued to Julia Szuecs, Compagnia Genovese Di Armamento, 1957

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Title
Ticket of Passage - Issued to Julia Szuecs, Compagnia Genovese Di Armamento, 1957
Subject
Australia--Emigration and immigration—History
Voyages and travels
Steamboat lines
Displacement
Foreign workers, Hungarian
Foreign workers
Italian language--Written Italian
Category
5. Cold War (including Decolonisation)
Creator
Compagnia Genovese D'Armamento Genova
Current holder
Immigration Museum Victoria
Date
1957
Link
https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/1086598
Item number
HT 7726
Access rights
Digitised
Country of origin
Italy
Place
Trieste
Melbourne
Language
Italian
Description from source
22 cm (Length), 22.7 cm (Width), 0.1 cm (Depth) Folded once. Ticket of passage from Trieste to Melbourne issued to Julia Szuecs (later Julia Toth, she was widowed soon after) by Compagnia Genovese Di Armamento in 1957.

Single leaf of paper, folded twice to produce a leaflet style ticket of passage. Text of document is printed in Italian language. Front page features a thin, red-line border around blue text and a graphic illustration of a red and blue flag with three stars across the top of the flag and an emblem of St George on horseback slaying a dragon. The first inner page is a double spread detailing passenger information, the page has a background rendered in blue ink with the St George emblem in the centre of the page; the text for the ticket is rendered in blue and red ink. The second page of the document is also a double spread, it lists the conditions of travel with the company. The back page of the document provides a country by country listing of agents authorised to sell tickets with the liner.

Inscriptions Front: Biglietto de Passaggio / Passage Ticket / COMPAGNIA / GENOVESE / DI ARMAMENTO Fist inner page (header): Per il Passaggero / TELEGRAMMI: COGEDAR / GENOVA / COMAPAGNIA GENOVESE DI ARMAMENTO / Societa per Azioni - Capitale Sociale Lit. 294.000.000 int. vers. / GENOVA / VIA ROMA, 1 - TELEF. 586.895 / N.R. 842 / Biglietta de Passaggio No. 54114 / Passage Ticket / sulla Nave di bandiera italiana M/N "FLAMINIA" / da TRIESTE a MELBOURNE / via PORT SAID-SUEZ-ADEN-FREMANTLE-MELBOURNE
Physical format
Tickets
Related resources
https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/3632/
Bibliographic citation
<p><a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/XJKCK259/">https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/XJKCK259/</a></p>