Ocean Liners and the Visual Archives of Early 20th-Century Migration

By Argyrios Sakorafas The developments in transportation technology in the late 19th and early 20th established a fast and reliable maritime connection between the Mediterranean and other global spaces.[1] While engineers developed bigger and faster machineries, an increased circulation of images was recorded, which is directly connected to these machineries, including the steamship business. The origin and purpose of the visual archives circulated during or as a result of a ship passage are...