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Promotional tinted lithographed portrait of the ship after a painting by Fred Pansing, advertising the Tehuantepec route between New York and Hawaii
This lithograph was by Fred Pansing, a German-American maritime artist who specialized in oil paintings and lithographs of ocean liners, with regular commissions from Cunard and White Star Lines.
The Alaskan was built in 1902 at San Francisco, California, by the Union Iron Works as a commercial cargo ship for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company, which employed her on the New York City-to-San Francisco-to-Honolulu, Hawaii, trade.
The American-Hawaiian Steamship Company was founded in 1899 to carry sugar from Hawaii to the US mainland and manufactured goods back to Hawaii. At the time of the company's founding, its steamships sailed around South America via the Straits of Magellan to reach the East Coast ports. By 1907, the company began using the Isthmus of Tehuantepec route, shipments on which would arrive at Mexican ports - Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, for eastbound cargo, and Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz for westbound cargo - and would traverse the Isthmus of Tehuantepec on the Tehuantepec National Railway. When American political troubles with Mexico closed that route, American-Hawaiian returned to the Straits of Magellan route.
Fred Pansing was an American artist who worked with Major & Knapp in New York.
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