Color postcard produced by the American Bankers Association, featuring an artist’s depiction of a husband and wife traveling by train and steamship, with a book of travelers’ checks in the center. Postmarked June 3, 1911, in Pittsburg, Kansas, and bears a letter in ink, in part: “Hope you are not having as hot weather there as we are here. Don’t believe it is ever going to rain again since is dry & dusty.” Trivial corner tip dings and some light surface loss to the reverse, otherwise fine condition. At the time the Titanic was built, White Star Lines was owned by J. P. Morgan as a subsidiary of his International Mercantile Marine Co., so his financial interests would have been promoted through both White Star Line steamship travel and the sale of traveler’s checks.
