I’ve previously told how husband-wife artist team Martin & Flora DeMuth talked Canadian Pacific into letting them go on at least 15 cruises in exchange for doing artwork and (in Martin’s case) giving lectures for those cruises. Indeed, it is likely that CP actually paid the DeMuths for their work in addition to giving them free room and board on lengthy cruises some of which, in today’s dollars, cost passengers a minimum of $40,000 apiece.

Click image to download a 7.0-MB PDF of these 11 memograms.

Here are some of Flora DeMuth sketches, or “memograms,” that were given to passengers aboard CP’s 72-day Mediterranean cruise (whose fares started at around $16,000 in today’s dollars) in 1929. Some memograms were postcard size and designed to be mailed to friends if passengers wanted. But today’s sketches are nearly 8-1/2″x11″ and the back is entirely blank. Passengers might receive scores of sketches during a single cruise and many presumably took them home to put into albums or stuff into boxes.

Ten sketches in this bunch include pictures of Algiers, Cairo, Constantinople, Gethsemane, Egypt, Jerusalem, Madeira, Monaco, Naples, and Venice. An eleventh “au revoir” sketch just shows a Canadian Pacific steamship flag. Most, if not all, of these sketches are included in a collection of 89 memograms (83.2 MB) in the Chung collection, but the ones shown here are a little cleaner and less faded.