Dollar Steamship Line - Daibutsu, Kamakura, Japan - 1938 - ADVERTISING for Sale

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Dollar Steamship Line - Daibutsu, Kamakura, Japan - 1938 - ADVERTISING - ARTIST SIGNED: Fred Wildkens: Robert Dollar, also known as Captain Robert Dollar (1844–1932), was a Scots-American industrialist born in Bainsford, Falkirk, Scotland. The title "Captain" was honorary and he was called the "Grand Old Man of the Pacific". Both were bestowed after his entry into the shipping industry. Dollar became a lumber baron, shipping magnate, philanthropist; he was also a Freemason. Dollar Steamship Line was founded by Robert Dollar. Dollar was born in Falkirk, Scotland in 1844, moving to Canada at the age of 11, he worked in a lumber camp. In 1893, he purchased his own sawmill on the Pacific Coast. Due to unreliable shipping timetables, he found it hard to ship his lumber from the Pacific Northwest down the coast towards California. Hence, in 1893Dollar bought a 120-foot (37 m) steam schooner called Newsboy. This led to the establishment of the Dollar Steamship Company (commonly known as "Dollar Line") on August 12, 1900, which soon grew to have a large fleet of schooners transporting lumber to market. n 1902, Dollar sailed to Asia for the first time on a Pacific Mail ship, SS China, to prospect potential lumber markets on the other side of the Pacific. He began to acquire a number of ships, and began his trans-Pacific shipping with a chartered voyage to Yokohama, Japan and the Philippines, marking his entry into international shipping. In this card, mailed in 1938, the correspondent sends a card to New York after having vested Japan and which en route to Manila in the Philippians. The card is of the Kōtoku-in (高徳院) Temple. Kōtoku-in (高徳院) is a Buddhist temple of the Jōdo-shū sect, in the city of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Its mountain name is Taiizan (大異山), and its common temple name is Shōjōsen-ji (清浄泉寺). The temple is renowned for The Great Buddha of Kamakura, a monumental outdoor bronze statue of Amitābha, which is one of the most famous icons of Japan. It is also a designated National Treasure, and one of the twenty-two historic sites included in Kamakura's proposal for inclusion in UNESCO's World Heritage Sites. This Linen Era postcard, mailed in 1938, is in good condition, but there is edge wear.