63 items found relating to : Library
| Arcadia News Leader | BRINGING TITANIC, HERITAGE TO TOWN Last fall, a man by the name of Don Lynch made a phone call to the Arcadia Public Library looking for information on his ancestors. The woman at the other end of the phone, library assistant Jennifer Losinski, immediately recognized the names of the family Lynch was looking for: Isadore Gaveney, one of his more prominent ancestors, was instrumental in organizing Arcadia's Carnegie Library and is depicted in a portrait on the library wall.... |
11th April 2009 | |||
| Sarasota Herald-Tribune | EXPERT ON THE TITANIC WILL SPEAK AT LIBRARY Kenneyth Chamberlin, a member of the Titanic Historical Society, will present a talk about the 1912 sinking of the luxury ocean linear."The Titanic: A Night to Remember" will be at 1 p.m., Oct. 18, at the Manatee County Central Library, 1301 Barcarrota Blvd. W., Bradenton. Admission is free. The Friends of the Central Library are sponsoring the program.... |
6th October 2008 | |||
| Irish Times | A TITANIC DISCOVERY IN A SCHOOL LIBRARY Having climbed on a pile of old books to retrieve a tome about the ‘Titanic’ from a library top shelf, ROSITA BOLAND found more than she had hoped for... |
13th April 2010 | |||
| NIEUW AMSTERDAM : LIBRARY. 1938. LIBRARY and CARD ROOM: Abaft the Grand Hall are the Library and Card Room, which flank the connecting glass paneled corridor leading to the Smoking and Ritz-Carlton rooms. Decorated in black and silver, with a note of maroon here and there, Wijdevel... |
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| Irish Times | A TITANIC DISCOVERY IN A SCHOOL LIBRARY Having climbed on a pile of old books to retrieve a tome about the Titanic from a library top shelf, ROSITA BOLAND found more than she had hoped for... |
13th April 2010 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | FOR NEW BEDFORD LIBRARY By The Associated Press Artist Millett Bringing Back Sketches for Mural Decorations. New Bedford, April 17- Frank D. Millett, the artist, who was aboard the Titanic and whose name does not appear on the list of survivors, had been engaged to paint the mural decor... |
18th April 1912 | |||
| Independent Press - NJ.com | HAAS TALKS OF LATEST CHAPTERS IN THE HISTORY OF THE TITANIC AT WARREN TOWNSHIP LIBRARY Charles Haas, an expert on all things Titanic and one of the few who has been to the sunken ship, will be speaking at the library at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 10.... |
10th April 2010 | |||
| HARRY ELKINS WIDENER LIBRARY Exterior, Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts. Endowed by his mother Eleanor, and opened in 1915.... |
May 2008 | ||||
| NIEUW AMSTERDAM CARD ROOM. 1938. LIBRARY and CARD ROOM: Abaft the Grand Hall are the Library and Card Room, which flank the connecting glass paneled corridor leading to the Smoking and Ritz-Carlton rooms. Decorated in black and silver, with a note of maroon here and there, Wijdevel... |
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| New York Times | MANY GIFTS TO CHARITY Joseph Hirsch's Will Filed---W. A. Spencer Gives $1,000 to Library --- A large number of public institutions received bequests by wills filed for probate yesterday in the Surrogates' Court. [Description of the will of Joseph Hirsch omi... |
29th May 1912 | |||
| FIRST CLASS LIBRARY |
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| 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 ha... |
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| ANDREA DORIA : FIRST CLASS LIBRARY |
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| ANDREA DORIA : CABIN CLASS LIBRARY |
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| New York Times | HARVARD'S LARGEST CLASS GRADUATED Degrees for 1,205 Students at the University’s 274th Commencement --- LOWELL TALKS ON WAR --- Says Conflict Imposes Burden Upon Us---Widener Memorial Library Is Dedicated --- Special to The New York Times... |
25th June 1915 | |||
| HARRY ELKINS WIDENER MEMORIAL LIBRARY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY |
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| Berkshire Eagle | TITANIC TAMPERING WITH GOWN Trevor Jones A 1909 black, sequined evening gown its owner says is worth at least $3,000. Sometime last month, where it was kept at the Mason Library in Great Barrington, it was damaged. A tear in the fabric. Sequins missing. And with no clear culprit, the owners claim a library employee vandalized the vintage dress. Town officials retort that it's just as likely the owners are at fault. ... |
17th July 2009 | |||
| The Times | LADY HARLAND'S WILL Dame Rosa Matilda Harland, of Baroda, House Kensington Palace-gardens, W., who died at Tunbridge Wells on October 21, daughter of Mr. Thomas Wann, of Vermont, Belfast, and widow of Sir Edward Harland, Bt., M.P. for North Belf... |
10th February 1912 | |||
| Acton-The Beacon | ACTON LIBRARY TO HOST 'TITANIC SINKS' ACTON, MASS. - The Delvena Theatre Company will present "The Titanic Sinks as Acton Sleeps" at the Acton Memorial Library on Wednesday, May 6, at 7 p.m.... |
29th April 2009 | |||
| PROBATE REPORT [from Liverpool Library] Snape, Lucy Violet of Well Lane, Sandhills, Whitley, Surrey, widow. Administration (with will limited) London 11th October to Edward James Lennard, cowman. Effects £234.14s 2d.... |
11th October 1912 | ||||
| New York Times | TITANIC WRECK ECHO AT HOE LIBRARY SALE Harry E. Widener, on Sunk Liner, Expected to Attend Part III. Sessions --- SAW BOOKS BEFORE SAILING --- Caxton "Golden Legend" Bring $3,100---$1,400 Paid for Christopher Columbus's "Epistola” --- "The Golden ... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| PROBATE REPORT [from Liverpool Library] Parsons, Edward of 26 Roberts Road, Hill Lane, Southampton. Probate London 11th May to Clara Parsons, widow. Effects £451.1s.4d.... |
11th May 1912 | ||||
| Stourbridge News | TITANIC TALES TALES about the Titanic will be retold in a lecture at Dudley Library next week.... |
28th September 2010 | |||
| Pocono Record | 'UNSINKABLE': MONROE LIBRARY HOSTS ONE-WOMAN SHOW ABOUT TITANIC Many people wonder what it was like on the lifeboats after the Titanic went down. This is one of the reasons why Deborah Jean Templin chose to write and perform "Unsinkable Women — Stories and Songs of the Titanic."... |
20th April 2010 | |||
| Wilkes Barre Times-Leader | TITANIC DISCOVERER TO SPEAK IN SCRANTON Dr. Robert Ballard the undersea explorer who discovered the wreckage of the Titanic will be the featured speaker for the Lackawanna County Library Systems American Masters Lecture on Thursday September 23 at 7 p.m. in the Scranton Cultural Center.... |
25th August 2010 | |||
| NIEUW AMSTERDAM : LIBRARY MURAL |
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| DAVID SARNOFF LIBRARY |
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| 1938 NIEUW AMSTERDAM BROCHURE. THIRD CLASS LIBRARY AND WRITING ROOM |
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| The Morning Sun | RETIRED TEACHER DONATES TITANIC MEMORABILIA TO LIBRARY Retired Alma High School Teacher David McMackin first became interested in the Titanic when he was looking for a non-fiction story his students could study. "It was 'A Night to Remember' by Walter Lord," he said. "That was available at the time." That one book got things started.... |
9th February 2010 | |||
| EDWARD DODD The William Salt Library, Stafford Dodd, Edward C. Son of Mr. Dodd former electrical engineer and contractor of Crewe. Formerly in Crewe railway Works, was 3rd engineer on the Titanic.... |
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| New York Times | TITANIC VICTIM'S ESTATE W. A. Spencer Left Property Worth $2,218,650 --- William Augustus Spencer, who was drowned when the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, left a net estate of $2,218,650, according to an appraisal filed yesterday. The beneficiaries are Mrs. M... |
10th July 1914 | |||
| San Francisco Call & Post | DR. DODGE DIES AS RESULT OF WOUNDS Page 2, column 2 [Photo] Dr. Washington Dodge, former banker, supervisor, library trustee and assessor of San Francisco, died at 9:25 o'clock this morning at the St. Francis Hospital from a bullet wound self-inflicted a ... |
30th June 1919 | |||
| HARRY ELKINS WIDENER MEMORIAL Wall plaque at the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts. Harry Elkins Widener A Graduate Of This University Born January 3, 1885 Died At Sea April 15, 1912 ... |
May 2008 | ||||
| New York Times | FOR BUTT-MILLET TITANIC MEMORIAL WASHINGTON, Aug. 22---The House Committee on Library favorably reported to-day the Senate joint resolution to authorize the erection of a drinking fountain in this city as a joint memorial to Major Archibald W. Butt and Francis Millet, who we... |
23rd August 1912 | |||
| Southern Reporter | TITANIC DISASTER - WELL-KNOWN MISSIONARY AMONG THE DROWNED. The Rev. John Harper, formerly pastor of Paisley Road Baptist Church, Glasgow, who appears to be among the victims of the Titanic disaster, was known in the Newtown and St. Boswells district. A few years ago Mr. Harper conducted the closing meeting o... |
25th April 1912 | |||
| patch.com | EXPLORE THE TITANIC AT THE LACEY LIBRARY The display consists of first, second, and third class plate sets; photographs of survivors; and jewelry from the ship itself. Egolf was invited on the Titanic expedition when they tried to raise a piece of the ship. On that trip, Egolf met Titanic survivors Edith Brown Haisman and Michael Navratil. After the expedition, Egolf got further involved in the research of the Titanic.... |
9th April 2011 | |||
| DOROTHY GIBSON IN THE LUCKY HOLDUP Dorothy Gibson in the Éclair gangster comedy "The Lucky Holdup" (1912) in which she stars opposite Lamar Johnstone, her regular leading man. Archived at the Library of Congress, it is the only one of Dorothy Gibson’s films known to exist. "The Lucky ... |
1912 | ||||
| LETTER FROM F.D. MILLET AND THE NEW BEDFORD LIBRARY John Lamoreau A letter written by F.D. Millet shortly before he left on a trip to Rome early in 1912. In the letter he discusses his plans for painting murals for the New Bedford Public Library in Massachusetts that was being remodeled. In the letter he mention... |
6th February 1912 | ||||
| Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea News | CHRISTOPHER HEAD A former Mayor of Chelsea was among the 1,523 lost in the Titanic disaster of April 1912. Christopher Head served as Mayor between 1909 and 1911 and had been a Conservative councillor since 1906. According to contemporary accounts, Head wa... |
April 1998 | |||
| INFORMATION FROM THE WILLIAM SALT LIBRARY, STAFFORD Hodgkinson, Leonard. Engineer. Stoke man educated at St. Thomas's School, Stoke. With White Star for several years. WAS forty-six years of age and his birthplace Liverpool. His apprenticeship was served with Messrs. Hartley, Armour and Fanning... |
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| New York Times | MRS. G. D. WIDENER TO MARRY DR. RICE South American Explorer to Wed Widow of Titanic Victim in Boston on Oct. 14 --- HER MEMORIAL GIFTS --- Philadelphia Society Woman Noted for Her Beauty and Jewels---Dr. Rice's Scientific Achievements --- Speci... |
6th October 1915 | |||
| MEMORIALS TO CHRISTOPHER HEAD Head, Mr. Christopher. Missing. Cabin B11. London address c/o Henry Head & Co., 27, Cornhill, London, E.C. There is a brass memorial to Mr. Head in St Nicolas Church, Old Shoreham, Susses. ... |
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| CHINESE SAILORS ON THE TITANIC Eight sailors from Hong Kong, boarded the Titanic together at Southampton...... |
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| LIFEBOAT SPECIFICATIONS The design of Titanic's lifeboats was supervised by Chief Ships Draughtsman Roderick Chisholm and the bopats were constructed at the Harland and Wo... |
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| New York Times | EXPLORER RICE WEDS MRS. G. D. WIDENER Law Requiring Five Days' Delay After Securing License Waived by a Court Order --- PLANS FOR SECRECY FAIL --- Bishop Lawrence Officiates at Ceremony in Emmanuel Church Vestry Witnessed by Twelve Persons --- Sp... |
7th October 1915 | |||
| New York Times | MRS. A. H. RICE DIES IN A PARIS STORE New York and Newport Society Woman, Wife of Explorer, Noted for Philanthropy --- A SURVIVOR OF TITANIC --- Lost First Husband and Son in Disaster---Gave Library to Harvard University --- Special Cable to THE ... |
14th July 1937 | |||
| Evening Bulletin | MRS. A. H. RICE DIES IN PARIS AT 69 Wife of Explorer and Surgeon Was Widow of G. D. Widener --- Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice, the former Eleanor Elkins, of this city, died suddenly yesterday at her home in Paris. She was 69. Mrs. Rice's first husband was G... |
14th July 1937 | |||
| Washington Times | CAPT. SMITH ENDED LIFE WHEN TITANIC BEGAN TO FOUNDER Stories of His Suicide Differ, One Woman Asserting He Shot Himself, and Another Describing His Drowning --- Unable to bear the terrible strain of the disaster that overtook his mighty ship, Capt. E. J. Smith killed himself and gave to t... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC The Titanic was a common subject for folk and blues singers in the 1920s and '30s. Artistes such as Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Ernest V. Stoneham and Vernon Dalhart all recorded Titanic numbers. Most had a common theme and derivation ... |
1927 | ||||
| SONGE D'AUTOMNE Songe d'Autmone (Dream of Autumn) was composed by Archibald Joyce (25 May 1873 to 22 March 1963). Joyce, popularly known as the "English Waltz King", had considerable success in England with this piece which was included in the re... |
1912 | ||||
| New York Times | PROVING FOREMAN ON TITANIC Brother Files Letters of Survivors in Asking for Administration Papers --- Edwin H. Foreman obtained yesterday from Surrogate Fowler letters of administration on the $10,000 estate of his brother, Benjamin L. Foreman, who was drowned on ... |
15th May 1912 | |||
| The Witney Gazette | CAPTAIN'S SUICIDE ON THE BRIDGE The latest news of the terrible disaster is published this (Friday) morning by The Daily Telegraph who, at 4.00 am, received the following telegram, containing a statement issued by a Committee of the Survivors:- We, the... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Shepton Mallet Journal | REDISCOVERED POSTCARD STRENGTHENS LINK BETWEEN TOWN AND TITANIC Castle Cary's connection with the world's most famous shipping disaster has been strengthened still further. This is because a New Forest pensioner has discovered a postcard found on the ship, which was to be sent to the wife of a local butcher.... |
2nd March 2000 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | OLE ABELSETH [OBITUARY] Ole Abelseth, 94, of Hettinger, ND, a survivor of he sinking of the oceanliner Titanic, died Thursday, December 4, 1980 at the Hettinger Community Memorial Hospital. Funeral services for Mr. Abelseth were held Monday, December 8, 1980, ... |
1980 | |||
| New York Times | MRS. FRED J. SWIFT, WAS CLUB LEADER Ex-Head of National Council of State Garden Units Dies---Officer in Many Groups --- NYACK, N. Y., April 30---Mrs. Margaret Welles Swift, prominent club-woman and widow of Fred Joel Swift, died yesterday in her home here... |
1st May 1948 | |||
| UNLISTED PASSENGERS AND CREW Numerous stories are told of people who were booked on the Titanic but, for one reason or other, failed to travel on her. Some are true, the vast majority are probably untrue. Quite a few of these claims probably relate to passengers who had... |
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| Chicago Tribune | JESSIE LEITCH'S STORY TELLS MISS LEITCH'S STORY Nana Harper, the 6 year old daughter of Dr. John Harper, who was on his way to Chicago to preach at the Moody church will return to England... |
21st April 1912 | |||
| The Sydney Morning Herald | TITANIC SURVIVOR MR THOMAS TAVERNER Mario J. Borg Hi there all, it is me Mario J. Borg from Sydney Australia writing about the TITANIC Survivor Mr Thomas Taverner again and you you all can read this article: TITANIC Survivor Mr Thomas Taverner was invited to a special meeting in George Street at The Flying Angel Mission to Seaman in 1962 ... |
7th April 1962 | |||
| LETTER BY FR BYLES TO MISS FIELD Dear Miss Field, On board ship one has little to do to fill up time so I start to write a letter to yo... |
10th April 1912 | ||||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO JOHN WESLEY WOODWARD Named on the Musicians Memorial at the Old Library site, London Road, Southampton. also named on the St Marys Church Musicians Memorial, St Marys, Southampton. also he is mentioned on a plaque in the lobby of the Boston ... |
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| Titanic Research | TITANIC TEXT : DEMYSTIFYING HISTORICAL STUDY Randy Bryan Bigham Internet research tips for beginners From biographies and cultural essays to technical papers and scientific analyses, ET Research at Encyclopedia-Titanica.org is the leading online destination for original, in-depth studi... |
20th September 2005 | |||
| Gare Maritime | MAURETANIA HISTORY COMES ALIVE IN BRISTOL Gavin Murphy Relics of the Cunard four-stacker now grace a Bristol bar... |
8th November 2001 | |||
| JOHN FREDERICK PRESTON CLARKE Brian J. Ticehurst Clarke, John Frederick Preston. 22 Tunstall Street, Smithdown Road, Liverpool. Orchestra (Bass). (From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) ... |
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