<b>BPLDC no.:</b> 09_03_000071
<p><b>Subtitle:</b> Ultra-modern liner, Queen Mary
</p><p><b>Creator:</b> King, Frederic Leonard (American painter and illustrator, 1879-1947)
</p><p><b>Date created:</b> 1934-1935
</p><p><b>General format:</b> oil on canvas
</p><p><b>Dimensions:</b> visible image 22 ½ x 45 in., framed 25 ½ x 48 in.
</p><p><b>BPL Department:</b> Special Collections, East Boston Branch Library
</p><p><b>Description:</b> This liner was launched from Clydebank, England, in September, 1934, and will not be entirely completed until 1936. It is a mammoth ship whose cost was $4,500,000. It is a Cunard-White Star Liner, and as such, would have been expected to be called by a name ending in "ia." Its owners, however, departed from their custom in order to honor the present queen of England.
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<b>Notes:</b> The description above was written in 1935.  The Queen Mary retired from service in 1967.  She is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  <i>Ships Through the Ages</i>, originally four murals painted by Frederic Leonard King between 1934 and 1935, was commissioned as part of the Public Works Art Project for the Jeffries Point Branch of the Boston Public Library.  In 1956, the Jeffries Point Branch closed, and each mural was divided into multiple paintings and relocated to the East Boston Branch Library where they are currently on display; however, several sections of the murals are missing.
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