This fringed silk souvenir depicts the S.S. Minnesota, a large ocean liner of the early 1900s, and represents the kind of decorative keepsake sailors, soldiers, and travelers often purchased or received to commemorate a voyage. Such silk novelties, produced in great numbers in this period, served as tangible mementos of journeys across the Pacific and Atlantic and often accompanied personal collections belonging to servicemen and their families. Project: 218690