Sailors Playing Cards Upstairs

A riverboat ferry terminal with six rooms, three above and three below. Upstairs left, an officer in a blue uniform looks through a spyglass beneath signal flags, with semaphore posters and a river map on the walls. In the middle, two striped-shirt sailors play cards on a rug beneath model sailing ships and a painted paddle steamer. At the right, a clerk with spectacles reads a list in front of a cargo classification chart and an abacus. Downstairs left, a ticket hall has a brass-railed counter, a farmer with a basket of oranges and a lady in a purple hat. In the centre, a porter weighs suitcases on a scale among sacks, trunks and a birdcage under a baggage chart. At the right, the dockmaster talks with a visitor beside a green wall chart. The oranges in the farmer's basket and the lady's purple hat are tiny bright clues among all the warm wood.