The Golden Age of Travel occurred between 1890 and the outbreak of World War II.  During this time wonderful hotels abounded, and the various modes of transport reached their glorious apogee. The labels which were placed on luggage by railroads, steamships or hotels beautifully capture the spirit of the era.   In this Golden Age luggage became a history of travels. The accumulation of labels revealed a traveller's taste as well as the places visited, the transportation used, and the hotels stayed in. The battered, overlaid and randomly applied labels achieved a cumulative personality. Because luggage, like other possessions, was less frequently discarded than it is today, the owner's travel history extended on and on, a concrete autobiography. Glancing at one's suitcases was likely to evoke rainy afternoons in London, frosty nights in the Alps, or perhaps, simply, a business journey through the Midwest.

Luggage labels are like unearthed time capsules, each containing the atmosphere of its past place and time. Laughing Elephant has produced facsimiles of many of these labels, each die-cut and self-adhesive, ready for use.  They can be used for many things, including the enrichment of one's luggage.

These labels are available in eight separate topical sets of 20 labels each as well as a mixed set of 40 labels.