"This is the cover of the 1936 brochure for the around-the-world cruise of the Franconia. The Franconia was built for Cunard in the early 1920s as both a trade and cruise ship, and made her maiden voyage in 1923. The brochure shows caricaturish figures representing a multitude of different cultures, such as an Indian snake charmer and a Chinese man with a queue wearing a dǒulì.The 1936 cruise begun at New York and took passengers to over twenty destinations including Malaysia, Bali and Singapore, where it arrived with over 200 passengers. Cruises tapered off in the Second World War, but the Franconia remained in use as troop transport, and after the war to repatriate troops and freed prisoners of war. She was scrapped in 1956."
