This photograph​ depicts a familiar scene off the Scottish coast in the late 1920s, as RMS Transylvania of the Anchor Line steams past Greenock, taking her to the Firth of Clyde and out on her transatlantic crossing to New York. This photograph is dated 25th August 1928. This particular passage leaving Glasgow on 25th August was fairly busy. The Scotsman newspaper reported that she was leaving at the height of the tourist season for returning American travellers. Among her more than 1,400 passengers were some officials of the USA Olympic team along with around 140 supporters. The 1928 games had been held in Amsterdam, and the Team themselves had already returned directly aboard SS President Roosevelt on 19th August.

Sometimes a collector finds interesting links across time. ​This is a piece of sheet music which was published by the prominent New York based music producers Leo Feist in 1913. The song “He’s on a boat that sailed last Wednesday” appears to have specifically commissioned by the Cunard Steamship Company to promote R.M.S. Mauretania. By the beginning of the First World War, Leo Feist were one of the seven largest music firms in the world and part of New York’s famous “Tin Pan Alley” collection of music producers and songwriters who dominated the popular music scene from the 1880s until the late 1930s.