The steamer trunk, if packed carefully and practically, holds all that any woman need require for the voyage to Europe. Since crossing to the other side has become an everyday affair, the question of what to take on the voyage has become a practical science - not a guesswork proposition.
— VOGUE, New York, 1911
hroughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as more people began to travel, women’s magazines like advised on selecting and preparing steamer trunks for ocean voyages, what to take, and how to efficiently
