Photograph album with screw binding. Dark brown boards (imitation leather). Front gold-blocked "S.S. AMERICA".
123 black and white photographs - 8x10 and smaller - affixed mainly with sellotape and 6 reproductions of drawings at the end of the album.
Few captions on the pages, most of them being in fact on the back of the pictures.
A date - 1 June 1951 - can be read at the back of a print made by "E.P. Griffith, Newport News, VA." for United States Lines. Another one - 1 December 1961 - at the back of a print made by Johannes Fleck, Bremerhaven - 3, Postfach 3021. Some other prints have been printed in France by Photo Paul Gobet, 3 rue de Parme, IXeme arrondissement, Paris.
It is an album - sometimes very detailled - of the liner, mostly of the interiors: lounges, bars, dining rooms, bedrooms, gift shop, swimming pool, smoking room, bridge, engines, boiler room, orchestra, printing press, kitchen and food, the use of a "radarange" oven, buffets, cages for pets, pets' care, cinema, beauty salon, a few passengers, a Christmas celebration, some details of the walls, ceilings, decoration and devices such as air conditioning and loudspeakers
A few pictures show the exteriors: mast, radars, decks, lifeboats.
A series of four shows crewmen on the forecastle threading a cable from the cable locker and then rigging the cable to a windlass.
The 6 drawings - at least two different artists - shows pictures of a room, of the ship and of the life on board in a rather schematic way.