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Shipboard Newsletter - Seelen Spiegel, MV Fairsea

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Title
Shipboard Newsletter - Seelen Spiegel, MV Fairsea
Subject
Australia--Emigration and immigration—History
Europe--Emigration and immigration
Voyages and travels
Steamboat lines
Immigrants
German language--Writing
Poetry
Category
5. Cold War (including Decolonisation)
Current holder
Museums Victoria Collections
Period of reference
December 4, 1953 – January 9, 1954
Link
https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/1073050
https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/articles/7738
Item number
HT 7387
Access rights
Digitised
Rights
All Rights Reserved
Country of origin
Germany
Place
Bremerhaven
Melbourne
Language
German
Description from source
22.6 cm (Width), 33.3 cm (Height)

Text: SEELEN SPIEGEL/BREMERHAVEN/4. DEC. 1953-9. JAN 1954/MELBOURNE. MV Fairsea (Motor Vessel).

5 page double sided printed newsletter, all in German including voyage schedule, stories, poems and sketches of passengers. Front cover features drawing of ship and newsletter title.

Shipboard Newsletter titled 'Seelen Spiegel' (Soul Mirror) issued to passengers travelling on the Fairsea from Bremerhaven-Melbourne from 4 December 1953 to 9 January 1954. This copy was collected by Fred Jordan, who migrated to Australia from Germany, on the Fairsea with his mother and step-farther on an assisted passage at the age of 17.
Physical format
Periodicals
Drawing
Poetry
Related resources
https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/1073077
Bibliographic citation
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