Nieuw Amsterdam : Third Class Library

THIRD CLASS WRITING ROOM and LIBRARY: A quiet and distinguished room on the Main Deck. Walls are of gray ash, and floor covered with speckled gray carpet. The furniture is gray ash with brown and white upholstery, and the curtains are of deep blue hand-woven fabric. For a relaxing hour or two, select a good book from the well stocked shelves and curl up in one of the comfortable chairs of the quiet library. Well-lit desks lining the walls make pleasant work of writing letters and postcards to folks back home. The Third class public rooms were restored , postwar, to almost exactly as they were in 1938. In 1961, when the Nieuw Amsterdam was permanently converted to a two class ship, the entire suite of Third class public rooms was removed and replaced by one large low-ceilinged room: the Henry Hudson Lounge.