Talk:Baltimore Steam Packet Company

Segregation
Did the company's ships have racially-segregated passenger compartments? I presume so, given the territory they served. If so, it might be worth mentioning in the article. Choess (talk) 21:42, 6 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Good question, I really don't know the answer. None of the reliable sources I've read say anything on the subject. Since the Old Bay Line went out of business in 1962, before discrimination in interstate commerce was outlawed, it is possible.  JGHowes  talk  -  22:33, 6 May 2008 (UTC)


 * A recent Keystone documents a steamer delivered to a PRR subsidiary in 1934 for use on the Chesapeake as having segregated passenger quarters. I suspect the Old Bay Line would also have done so. Does Brown's book have any diagrams of individual steamers that might reveal this? (Not that I mean to make this a GA-killer, it just seems like an interesting point.) Choess (talk) 00:40, 7 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Regrettably, no. Brown's book has no diagrams, nor any ship interior photos, for that matter. Just exterior views similar to the District of Columbia image used in the article Lead.  JGHowes talk  -  05:18, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * (update) Indulging in a bit of OR, I asked Fred Rasmussen and Jacques Kelly, who both write history articles for the Baltimore Sun, if they could shed any light on this question, but they could not.  JGHowes   talk  15:56, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Edit
This is a featured article, not an drama. Removed "never again...melodious whistle" remark. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.103.47.166 (talk) 09:38, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Reworded for encyclopedic tone.  JGHowes   talk  15:56, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

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