The American Monthly Review of Reviews July-December 1902
This volume of The American Monthly Review of Reviews has a detailed article about the newly formed IMM.Postcard of Red Star liner Zeeland
This postcard shows the SS Zeeland of the Red Star Line, a company absorbed into the Morgan combine.1899 The America's Cup International Race
JP Morgan's yacht Columbia and Sir Lipton’s (of the tea) yacht Shamrock competed in the 1899 American Cup. Lord Pirrie had come over to the US aboard the Oceanic in support of Sir Lipton. Also onboard the Oceanic was Mrs. Morgan. It is possibly during this period that Morgan and Pirrie began discussing what would be the IMM.American Navigation & History and Theory of Shipping Subsidies
To understand why and how the IMM was created its important to understand the shipping laws of the time. These are just two great period books that illustrate such knowledge.