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  (1911) DOROTHY GIBSON
Dorothy Gibson in a publicity picture at the time of the release of her film, "Miss Masquerader."...
  1911  
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (2008) TITANIC'S LAST SECRETS
No ship in history has the notoriety of the Titanic. There are more than 130 books inspired by the doomed liner. Google supplies 3.5 million references. More than a dozen motion pictures are devoted to the disaster, and the last one, James Cameron's 1997 award-winning "Titanic," no doubt has shaped many people's opinions about what happened the night of April 14, 1912....
6th October 2008  
Sarasota Herald-Tribune (2008) THE RMS TITANIC
Grab your boarding pass, it's time to embark on an exhilarating voyage aboard history's most notorious ocean liner.By now, the tragic events surrounding the Titanic's maiden voyage and catastrophic sinking, which left 1,523 people dead, are well-known.Countless books, expeditions and motion pictures have meticulosity analyzed, theorized and re-created every aspect of the "unsinkable" passenger liner that hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912....
6th October 2008  
Daily Sketch (1912) WILLIAM THOMAS STEAD: THE BIOFIX PICTURES
A few days before he boarded the Titanic W.T. Stead travelled to the Biofix studios at 56 The Strand, London. Photographs were taken of him displaying C...
16th April 1912  
  (1912) PICTURE STAR GIVEN RECEPTION AT WEBER'S
Dorothy Gibson Introduced, Applauded by "Movie" Crowd A distinct treat was enjoyed by a large audience of devotees of the motion pictures yesterday when Mr. White, manager of Weber’s New York, spied among the evening’s patrons M...
  1912  
Variety (1946) JULES BRULATOUR DIES AT 76 IN NEW YORK; PIONEER OF FILM BIZ
Jules E. Brulatour, 76, film business pioneer, who for four years had been distributor of raw stock for Eastman Kodak, died Saturday night (26) at Mt. Sinai hospital, N.Y., after an illness of about a month. His wife, former actress Hope Hamilton, wa...
23rd October 1946  
Calgary Herald (1912) WILLIAM HARBECK WITH MOVIE CAMERA
Well known in Calgary, who is said to have been on the Titanic. Mr Harbeck was engaged, it is said, to take a series of pictures of the Titanic's first voyage. He took many pictures in Alberta in connection with C.P.R. advertising. ...
20th April 1912  
  TITANIC
This video contains a lot of (very old) pictures on Titanic, and even two short (original) films. It also contains pictures from the famous movie "Titanic" with Kate and Leonardo as actors. It's a monochrome film. ...
   
The Evening Post (1912) TITANIC MOVING PICTURES BARRED IN BRIDGEPORT
  Bridgeport, Conn.- Superintendent of police Birmingham yesterday issued an order prohibiting the exhibition of so-call...
2nd May 1912  
  (1912) 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  
New York Dramatic Mirror (1911) GOSSIP OF THE STUDIOS
Dorothy Gibson has been engaged as leading woman for the New American stock of the Éclair Company. Her portrait appears on another page. She had gained some attention on the stage before going into pictures and had also posed for Harrison Fisher, the...
9th August 1911  
The Times (1912) PRESUMED DEATH IN THE TITANIC
T. Franklin presumed deceased [Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Court hearing] This was a motion to swear the death of Thomas Parnham Franklin, of Sunningdale, Ceylon Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, who is believed to have lost his...
11th June 1912  
Sentinel (1953) RELATIVES OF TITANIC COMMANDER VISIT FILM
Only living first cousin of Captain E.J. Smith, Sarah Harris (my great grandmother) in her 94th ...
28th August 1953  
New York Times (1931) BOOK NOTES
Macmillan has obtained what are believed to be the only pictures of the rescue of the Titanic’s survivors and these will be used to illustrate Sir Arthur Rostron's forthcoming autobiography, "'Home From the Sea." Sir Arthur, in command of the Ca...
22nd July 1931  
Chicago Tribune (1952) FILM STORY OF TITANIC SINKING GETS THE GREEN LIGHT
LOOKING AT HOLLYWOOD by Hedda Hopper Film Story of Titanic Sinking Gets the Green Light Hollywood, Feb. 22--Darryl Zanuck has given the green light to Charlie Brac...
22nd February 1952  
New York Times (1935) FIERMONTES SAIL ON THE SAME SHIP
Former Mrs. Astor, With Friend, Books Passage for Italy at Last Moment --- The former Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick, who was married to Enzo Fiermonte, Italian pugilist, more than a year ago, booked a last-minute passage Saturday on t...
29th January 1935  
New York Times (1909) MRS. ASTOR OBTAINS DIVORCE QUIETLY
No Names Mentioned in Proceedings Before Justice Mills, Who Grants Interlocutory Decree --- ALL PAPERS IN CASE SEALED --- It Is Understood Counsel Had Earlier Agreement on Disposition of Children and Financial Settlement...
9th November 1909  
  (1911) MISS DOROTHY GIBSON, HARRISON FISHER MUSE, NOW PICTURE STAR
Miss Dorothy Gibson, the well-known beauty who is the muse of Mr. Harrison Fisher, the popular illustrator of feminine charms, has forsaken the studio of the artist for that of the motion picture. Miss Gibson, who is the sitter for man...
  1911  
  RUSTICLE AND PORTHOLE
More Titanic Wreck Pictures...
   
  THE STRANGE MYSTERIES OF MOVIE MAKER WILLIAM HARBECK
William Harbeck was one of the very first moving picture film makers. In 1911 his film of southern Alaska became the center of a major story. American railroad tycoon J P Morgan and Meyer Guggenheim bought up claims for large tracts of land in Alaska...
   
Chicago Tribune (1952) LOOKING AT HOLLYWOOD
“THE TITLE “Nearer My God To Thee” is now definitely “Titanic.” It should have been all along, but 20th Century had to clear it, and that cost a pretty penny. . .”   Chicag...
22nd December 1952  
  LUSITANIA.ORG.UK
Lusitania history, pictures stories and biographies....
   
  (2009) THE WORLD OF THE TITANIC
A mosaic of pictures making up the story of the Titanic....
10th September 2009  
New York Times (1923) HOPE HAMPTON KEPT HER WEDDING SECRET
Film Star Married Jules E. Brulatour, Her Manager, Aug. 22---His Third Marriage --- To the surprise of their friends it became known yesterday that Hope Hampton, the motion picture actress who was last seen on the screen in "The Gold Di...
8th November 1923  
  (1910) LAUNCH OF THE OLYMPIC - 1910
One of two pictures published by the French paper L'Illustration, showing the hull of the Olympic, painted white, being launched in Belfast....
29th October 1910  
Mon Film (1955) BARBARA STANWYCK IN TITANIC
This studio picture of Miss Barbara Stanwick was published on 14 September 1955 in the French weekly 'Mon Film'. The Fox version of the Titanic disaster by Jean Negulesco was just about to open in France and this magazine published a two page coverag...
14th September 1955  
  (1910) LAUNCH OF THE OLYMPIC - 1910
One of two pictures of the Olympic being launched in Belfast, in 1910....
29th October 1910  
  (1913) JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN AND HIS SON IN LONDON
At the time of Pierpont Morgan's death, the French magazine 'Je Sais Tout' published a long article on the famous banker. Among the pictures published, one showed him strolling in the streets of Paris with his daughter, or walking out of the thermal ...
15th April 1913  
Chicago Tribune (1980) VERDICT ON 'RAISE THE TITANIC' : "LIFE IS TOO SHORT"
TOWER TICKER ". . . . Film critic Pauline Kael, according to New York Post columnist Claudia Cohen, charged out of a press screening of "Raise the Titanic" mutterin...
5th August 1980  
Excelsior (1912) PORTRAITS OF FAMOUS TITANIC PASSENGERS
The French paper Excelsior dedicated its 17 April issue to the sinking of the Titanic. They published the pictures of many famous passengers (Mme Aubart, JJ Astor and Madeleine Astor), but also: (1) J.B. Ismay, (2) Countess of Rothes, (3) Lord Ashbur...
17th April 1912  
  TITANIC DISCOVERY NEWS 1985
Titanic : 1985 News report with Robert Ballard showing some early pictures of the wreck. ...
   
New York Times (1907) MUST PRODUCE MINE STOCK
John Weir Held In Contempt for Dodging Sheriff's Attachment --- The Appellate Division yesterday reversed an order of the Supreme Court denying a motion made on behalf of Sheriff Hayes to compel John Weir to produce 42,000 shares of sto...
17th July 1907  
The Times (1904) MRS. PIRRIE HONORED
BELFAST, April 5 --- At the meeting of the City Corporation to-day Alderman John McCormick moved a resolution electing and admitting Mrs. Pirrie an honorary burgess of the city of Belfast in recognition of her signal...
6th April 1904  
Lisburn Today (2009) TITANIC SET TO 'MAKE A SPLASH' AT LEGACURRY
ONE of the most iconic ships in history, R.M.S Titanic, is set to make headlines again as Larchfield Community Development Association is hosting a festival to mark the centenary of the laying down of the keel of the famous White Star Liner....
8th September 2009  
Buda Plain Dealer (1912) TITANIC SURVIVOR
Edward Dorking, the young man from Oglesby who survived the terrible experiences of the "Titanic" disaster, will speak in Opera Hall in Buda, Saturday evening May 18. He gave his first address in Princeton, where it was heard with intense interest, f...
17th May 1912  
New York Times (1910) MRS. ASTOR ASKS A DECREE
Seeks Final Order in Her Divorce Suit in White Plains --- WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., March 1---Counsel for Mrs. Ava Willing Astor filed a note of issue to-day for a motion to make permanent the interlocutory decree of divorce she obtained fro...
2nd March 1910  
New York Dramatic Mirror (1912) A LIVING MEMORY
A Living Memory (Drama) Released: March 26, 1912 Produced by Éclair American Distributed by Motion Picture Distribution and Sales Company Directed by Alec B. Francis S...
3rd April 1912  
ET Research (2004) STAR TURN: THE PICTURES AND PASSIONS OF DOROTHY GIBSON
The following article is an excerpt from the introduction of Randy Bigham’s forthcoming biography, Finding Dorothy: An Appreciation of the Life and Career of Dorothy Gibson Brulatour, which will soon be available in a fully illustrated,...
26th October 2004  
ET Research (2001) MY TITANIC DIVE
Arrival in St. Johns, Canada: We're hoping hurricane Henry ...
30th November 2001  
Daily Chronicle (1912) LAST WILL & TESTAMENT LOST ON TITANIC
In the High Court of Justice Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division (Before the Rt. Hon. Samuel Evans, President) In the goods of S. S. Jacobsohn, deceased. page 3 This was a motion by a wid...
23rd July 1912  
  (1911) FILM OF THE OLYMPIC
These pictures were retouched after the Titanic disaster to eliminate American company flags visible on the other vessels in harbour so that, when re-shown in April 1912, the pictures might represent Titanic at her berth in Southampt...
  1911  
Semi Weekly Iowegian (1912) FRENCH CHILDREN MAY BE HIS - FRANK LEFEBRE GOES TO NEW YORK FROM MYSTIC TO IDENTIFY TWO UNKNOWN FRENCH CHILDREN
Believing that two unknown French children saved from the Titanic are his, Frank Lefebre has started from Mystic for New York to identify them. The two little tots are in the hands of Miss Margaret Hays, a survivor of the Titanic, who took them in...
23rd April 1912  
9NEWS.com (2009) TITANIC TREASURES ON VIEW FOR FREE
BROOMFIELD‚ - Two metro area shopping malls, along with Country Financial have teamed up to offer a free historic exhibit for the public.Titanic, Treasures of the Deep is a traveling exhibit that is in the Denver area for the next two wee...
29th April 2009  
LocalNews8.com (2009) TITANIC AUTHOR SPEAKS AT MUSEUM OF IDAHO
By Hailey Higgins, Local News 8 ReporterIDAHO FALLS - A man who made the journey to Titanic's watery grave is in Idaho Falls to share his life's work.Charles Haas has written five books about the ship. He says he was the first...
15th May 2009  
  ACCOUNT BY MARSHALL DREW
'When the 'Titanic' struck the iceberg at 11.40 pm, I was in bed. However, for whatever reason I was awake and remember the jolt and cessation of motion. A steward knocked on the stateroom door and directed us to get dressed, put on life preservers a...
   
Vineland Times Journal (1953) SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER TELLS OF GRIM EXPERIENCES
It was around midnight on April 14, 1912. The luxury liner "titanic", the finest passenger vessel afloat was on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, To New York. The ship collided with an iceberg off Newfoundland in the fog and sank. ...
25th March 1953  
New York Times (1912) FRANK D. MILLET'S CAREER
Noted Artist Famed as War Correspondent and Traveler --- Frank D. Millet, a noted artist and correspondent, was born at Mattapoisett, Mass., in 1846. His adventurous temperament led him to enlist as a drummer boy at the beginning of the Civ...
16th April 1912  
New York Times (1909) SEALED ASTOR PAPERS FILED
Rockland County Sends Them to Dutchess---Everything Secret --- Special to The New York Times --- POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Nov. 10---The sealed papers in the divorce action of Ava Willing Astor against John Jacob Astor were fil...
11th November 1909  
  CARGO MANIFEST
SS Titanic: Commercial Cargo Manifest: Net worth of total cargo: $420,0...
   
The Times (1925) LORD PIRRIE'S ESTATE
The RIGHT HON. VISCOUNT PIRRIE, K.P., LL.D. D.Sc., of Witley Park, Godalming, and of Ormiston, Strandtown, Belfast, chairman of Harland and Wolff, Limited, shipbuilders and eng...
4th April 1925  
  (1912) LETTER BY FR BYLES TO MISS FIELD
Dear Miss Field, On boar...
10th April 1912  
  (1912) JUST AS THE SHIP WENT DOWN - A SONG OF THE SEA
A Song of the Sea Words by Edith Maida Lessing Music by Bernie Adler and Sidney Gibson Published 1912 by the Harold Rossiter Music Company, Chicago, USA Listen to this Piece [...
  1912  
New York Times (1910) UNSEALED DECREE IN ASTOR DIVORCE
On Final Judgment Court Does Away with Secrecy by Order to Dutchess County Clerk ---- CROWD IN THE COURTROOM --- Report That Mrs. Astor Receives Only $50,000 a Year Not Contradicted --- The terms of the final...
5th March 1910  
The Times (1930) FILM "ATLANTIC" - ACTRESS INJURED IN RECREATION OF "TITANIC" SCENES
Court of Appeal Actress's claim under Workmen's Compensation Act Armour v. British International Pictures Ltd. (Before the Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Slesser and Lord Justice...
30th July 1930  
  (1913) DOROTHY GIBSON: STAR STYLE
Model and actress Dorothy Gibson and her mother, Pauline C. Gibson, filed suit against the White Star Line for recovery of property they lost on Titanic. Their damage claims were fairly modest, compared to other female petitioners, amounting to $2,38...
31st January 1913  
New York Times (1914) 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  
Chicago Tribune (1966) PASSENGER ON TITANIC RECALLS 1912 TRAGEDY
Mrs. Hans Christensen, 72, keenly remembers a cold April night in the Atlantic ocean nearly 54 years ago when she sat in a bobbing lifeboat and helplessly watched the liner, Titanic, quietly slip beneath the frigid waters off the coast of Newfou...
3rd April 1966  
  (1912) LETTER FROM CAPTAIN SMITH'S WIDOW
Woodhead Winn Road Southampton Telephone 1400 Dear Frank, I'm sorry to be so long in answering your letter and picture of your family which I am pleased to have. What a lovely outlook from your home. By the "Olympi...
6th June 1912  
The Times (1958) TRAGEDY AT SEA - FILM RECORD OF THE TITANIC
The sinking of the Titanic has been dramatized on several occasions, and the subject has been examined from different aspects - as one of the greatest disasters in marine history, as an essay in human courage, as an event that symbolized the passi...
2nd July 1958  
  RAISE THE TITANIC MODEL LANGUISHES IN MALTA
THE weather-beaten remains of the giant model used for the 1981 film flop "Raise the Titanic" is rapidly disintegrating in the village of Kalkara, Malta. The 55-foot-long steel hull now provides an uncanny above-sea-level glimp...
   
  (1998) SEVENTY-FIVE REGISTERED LETTERS WERE SENT (FROM NORWAY) WITH THE TITANIC IN 1912
I wanted to read what some Norwegian newspapers had written about the Titanic disaster. In the local newspaper Lillesandsposten dated 23rd April 1912 , I read this: There was a large amount of mail sent with the Titanic. There is in ge...
26th August 1998  
Santa Barbara News-Press (1956) MRS. BERTHE BOURLARD, WORLD TRAVELER, PLANS ANOTHER EUROPEAN TRIP
Mrs. Berthe Leroy Bourlard, who survived the sinking of the “Titanic” with her patroness, Mrs. Walter Douglas, keeps her picture and the volume of her verses, which contains a poem entitled “Titanic” among her souvenirs of 35 years as traveling compa...
27th May 1956  
Daily Home News (1912) VAN BILLIARD BOYS MAY HAVE STUCK TO FATHER
Relatives, However, Hope That They May Be Among the Titanic Waifs in New York---Father Was Returning Home With Many Diamonds. ---------- Many tales of heroism displayed by men, women and children aboard the Steamer Titanic during the la...
23rd April 1912  
New York Times (1969) RENEE HARRIS, 93, FIRST WOMAN TO PRODUCE PLAYS HERE, IS DEAD
p.47, col. 5 Mrs. Renee Harris, New York's first woman theatrical producer, a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, died yesterday at Doctor's Hospital. She was 93 years old and lived at 140 West 69th Street. A former owner...
3rd September 1969  
Washington Times (1912) DEATH OF MAJOR BUTT MOURNED BY WASHINGTONIANS
Persons in Official and Private Life Speak Eulogistically of the President’s Military Aide Who Died---A Soldier --- Men of the United States army and navy, men who lived under the same roof---the men who knew Major Butt most intimately-...
19th April 1912  
New York Times (1889) THE TEUTONIC LAUNCHED
A WHITE STAR STEAMER THAT IS EXPECTED TO BEAT ALL RECORDS --- BELFAST, Jan. 19---The new White Star steamer Teutonic was launched this morning from the Queens Island yard. The companion ship, Majestic, of ...
20th January 1889  
Irish Independent (2009) 'TITANIC' DIRECTOR AND CAST ARE ASKED TO HELP SHIP'S LAST SURVIVOR
By ALISON O'RIORDANSunday April 26 2009An Irish author and photographer, Don Mullan, is challenging the director and cast of the 1997 film Titanic to take care of the last living link to the 1912 maritime tragedy. ...
29th April 2009  
ET Research (2009) MOUNT TEMPLE TEMP'S MEMORIES
THE replacement Fourth Officer of the Mount Temple on her homeward voyage in April 1912 was a m...
8th October 2009  
TDN (2009) TITANIC'S HISTORY LIVES ON THROUGH LOCAL MAN
When John Stuart saw a newspaper article Monday about the death of the last Titanic survivor, his first thought was, 'My gosh, I talked to her. I have her signature.'The retired Castle Rock history teacher chatted with Millvina Dean at...
5th June 2009  
Irish Independent (2009) 'TITANIC' DIRECTOR AND CAST ARE ASKED TO HELP SHIP'S LAST SURVIVOR
By Alison O'RiordanSunday April 26 2009An Irish author and photographer, Don Mullan, is challenging the director and cast of the 1997 film Titanic to take care of the last living link to the 1912 maritime tragedy. ...
26th April 2009  
ET Research (2008) THE RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX
WHAT goes on four legs, then two legs, then three? The Riddle of the Sphinx, from Greek mythology, denotes the eternal voyage of man… from crawling on all fours, to walking proudly erect, to finally ending up hunched over a...
1st June 2008  
  (2005) EVERY THING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE TITANIC
Dimensions and Statistics: • Length - 882 feet 6 inches. • Beam - 92 feet 6 inches. • Draft - 34 feet 6 inches. • Height - 175 feet from keel to stack (the boat deck was 60 feet above the waterline). • Dec...
8th December 2005  
 

 
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