Colombian Line "Cruise the West Indies" Advertisement — Christophe Sold as Cruise Spectacle

A late-1920s cruise company advertisement analyzed by Mary Renda in Taking Haiti as a key document of occupation-era tourism culture — showing a giant Henri Christophe straddling a steamship while promising that 'Colombian Line alone presents Sans Souci and The Citadel... Two added attractions at no added cruise cost.' The ad converts Christophe's palace and fortress — monuments rooted in anti-colonial sovereignty — into amenities for U.S. leisure travelers, linking occupation power to consumer fantasy. Part of a cluster of occupation-era objects alongside Black Majesty, the Citadel of Christophe pamphlet, and the visit-to-king-christophe wallpaper that turned Haitian history into U.S. consumer product.