Across the Pacific – from Seattle to Shanghai, 1925

An illustration of an ocean liner towering over a Chinese junk – from a 1925 advert in the American press for the American Oriental Mail Line (which was effectively the Dollar Line after 1922) – their route was: Seattle, Victoria (BC), Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Manila. All their ships were named after American presidents – McKinley, Grant, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson etc….