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Messageries Maritimes
One sheet, This is a vintage poster advertising the French shipping company Messageries Maritimes, which was founded in 1851
. The poster promotes the company's "Cargo-Boats Français" (French Cargo-Boats) service from Anvers (Antwerp) to the "Extrême Orient" (Far East). The artist of this particular poster is Henri Edmond Rudaux.
Messageries Maritimes was a prominent merchant shipping company that operated on routes primarily to the Middle and Far East, as well as the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Its "golden age" was from 1871 to 1914, a period of French colonial expansion. The company eventually merged with Compagnie générale transatlantique in 1977 to form Compagnie générale maritime.
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