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  (1904) LADY DUFF GORDON
Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon wearing a pair of 18th century emerald and pearl cross-shaped earrings that were lost in the sinking of the Titanic. They were Duff Gordon family heirlooms given to her by her husband as a present on their wedding in 1900. The ...
  1904  
  JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN
Portrait of the great financier, industrialist and shipowner....
   
  STUDIO PORTRAIT OF CHARLOTTE CARDEZA
   
  (1911) PORTRAIT OF DOROTHY GIBSON
Dorothy in a publicity portrait taken at the time of her joining Eclair Studios in the summer of 1911....
  1911  
Le Petit Journal (1908) GUGLIELMO MARCONI
Portrait of Signor Marconi at the time when wireless linked Paris (France) and Casablanca (Morocco)...
24th November 1908  
  MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT STUDIO PORTRAIT
This portrait is to be compared with another one by the same photographer, where major Butt wears no cap. Published in 1912 by Logan Marshall....
   
New York Times (1933) ART SHOW OPENS AT COOPERSTOWN
ART SHOW OPENS AT COOPERSTOWN --- 56 Participants in Exhibit of 176 Items---Portrait of A. B. Ryerson a Feature --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- COOPERSTOWN, N, Y., Aug. 19---The Summer exhibit of the C...
21st August 1933  
  (1898) OLE MARTIN OLSON FAMILY PORTRAIT
Family portrait of Ole Martin Olson (c. 1898). Front row; Anna, holding Severen, Martha, Serena, Ole B. Back row: Julia, Joseph, Ole M....
  1898  
  (1911) DOROTHY GIBSON (1911)
Dorothy Gibson in a 1911 promotional portrait...
  1911  
  ISIDOR STRAUS STUDIO PORTRAIT
Photographic portrait of Isidor Straus published in 1912 in 'The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters', by Logan Marshall....
   
New York Times (1925) LORD RIBBLESDALE DEAD; LINE EXTINCT
Widow Was the First Wife of the Late John Jacob Astor, Formerly Miss Willing --- BARON LOST SONS IN WAR --- Aristocratic Appearance Drew Compliment From King Edward---Lady Oxford Kin by Marriage --- Copyright...
22nd October 1925  
  (1956) BERTHE LEROY IN 1956
This picture illustrated a long article in a Santa Barbara (Ca.) newspaper in May 1956. It was sent to us by Don Lynch if I remember well. Note on the table: (1) a portrait of Mr Douglas and (2) a portrait of Mrs Douglas. Berthe is reading a book of ...
  1956  
New York Times (1912) BOSTON BANKS TO MERGE
H. K. Hallett to Head Combined Atlantic and Fourth National --- Special to The New York Times --- BOSTON, July 21---The death of Arthur W. Newell, President of the Fourth National Bank, who was lost on the Titanic, is abou...
22nd July 1912  
  DAGMAR BRYHL
   
  MARY FORTUNE PORTRAIT
   
  PORTRAIT OF ALGERNON BARKWORTH
   
  PORTRAIT OF COUNTESS OF ROTHES
   
  PORTRAIT OF FATHER BYLES
   
  PORTRAIT OF HILDA SLAYTER
   
  PORTRAIT OF JANE HERMAN
   
  PORTRAIT OF PAUL MAUGé
   
  PORTRAIT OF THOMAS ANDREWS
   
  (1909) PORTRAIT OF "MOLLY" BROWN
  1909  
  (1909) PORTRAIT OF ELEANOR WIDENER
  1909  
  (1912) PORTRAIT OF ANNA TURJA
  1912  
Toronto Daily Star (1912) PORTRAIT OF QUIGG BAXTER
17th April 1912  
  (1930) GOLD QUEEN
  1930  
Falmouth Penryn Packet (2009) TITANIC DINING AT THE NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM CORNWALL
To coincide with the hugely successful Titanic Honour and Glory exhibition being held at National Maritime Museum Cornwall, the Museum is commemorating the 97th anniversary of the tragedy with a dinner of Titanic proportions. ...
20th March 2009  
  CHARLES M. HAYS - STUDIO PORTRAIT
   
  JAMES VIVIAN DREW
   
  PORTRAIT OF A LADY- JOURNEYS IN TIME
   
  PORTRAIT OF ADRIEN FINNIN CHABOISSON
   
  PORTRAIT OF CHARLES LEONARD KIRKLAND
   
  PORTRAIT OF JEAN BAPTISTE PACHERA
   
  PORTRAIT OF JOHN BERTRAM CRAFTON
   
  PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM THOMAS FOX
   
  STUDIO PORTRAIT OF LEONARD HICKMAN
   
  (1905) PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM THOMAS STEAD
  1905  
  (1908) PORTRAIT OF SIR COSMO DUFF GORDON
  1908  
  (1910) PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM THOMAS STEAD
  1910  
  (1925) PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM J. MELLORS C.1925
  1925  
  JAMES CLINCH SMITH STUDIO PORTRAIT
   
  PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF CHARLOTTE CARDEZA
   
  STUDIO PORTRAIT BELIEVED TO BE OF RICHARD PARSONS
   
  THOMAS ANDREWS : HARLAND AND WOLFF PORTRAIT
   
  (1912) PORTRAIT OF MADELEINE FORCE ASTOR IN MOURNING
  1912  
  CAPTAIN STANLEY LORD
   
  PORTRAIT OF VINCENZO PIO GILARDINO
   
L'Excelsior (1912) THE ASTORS
Portrait of JJ Astor and young bride Madeleine...
20th April 1912  
  (1920) EDITH ROSENBAUM RUSSELL FROM A PORTRAIT BY ARNOLD GENTHE
  1920  
  (1923) NOELLE, COUNTESS OF ROTHES (PORTRAIT BY MONRO MACKIE)
  1923  
  NORMANDIE: A PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT
Spectacular views of the quintessential superliner....
   
  (1910) LUCY DUFF GORDON, PORTRAIT BY RITA MARTIN, LONDON
  1910  
Daily Telegraph (2006) NATIONAL ARCHIVES TO PUT TITANIC RECORDS ON THE NET
?2.5m deal to scan and place online the National Archives' entire historical database of passengers who embarked on sea voyages from Britain's shores between 1890 and 1960. This includes the one and only voyage of Titanic, which was made into a Hollywood blockbuster starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo di Caprio.The estimated 30m individual records include details of emigrations to Australia, North and South America, India and Africa....
2nd April 2006  
Elmer Times (1912) MARINE DISASTER
[The following paragraph is the only passenger-specific one in a longer article.] Among the Titanic’s passengers reportedly was Frederick Sutton, whose home was at Haddonfield, but who had large business interests in Wildwood. He was ...
19th April 1912  
  (1916) PORTRAIT OF LUCY, LADY DUFF GORDON AT WORK IN HER NEW YORK SALON, BY ARNOLD GENTHE
  1916  
  PORTRAIT OF JACQUES FUTRELLE
This photo appears in the frontpiece page of the 1912 edition of his book 'My Lady's Garter' published by Rand McNally & Company...
   
  PORTRAIT OF G. W. WOLFF, PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE OF NORTHERN IRELAND
   
  STUDIO PORTRAIT OF BERTHE LEROY
Berthe is shown wearing the Carpathia brooch....
   
  (1910) PORTRAIT OF LUCY DUFF GORDON BY MARCEAU, NEW YORK
  1910  
  PORTRAIT OF SIR EDWARD J. HARLAND, PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE OF NORTHERN IRELAND
   
  WILLIAM THOMAS STEAD STUDIO PORTRAIT
Published in 1912 in 'The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters - By Logan Marshall'....
   
  (1895) ANDREWS FAMILY PORTRAIT
Thomas Andrews or Tommie (to his friends and family) is sitting with his hands on his legs....
  1895  
  ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY WEB SITE (UNOFFICIAL): A. BUTT PAGE
   
  POSTED ABOARD R.M.S. TITANIC (NATIONAL POSTAL MUSEUM, WASHINGTON, D.C.)
   
  (1925) RICHARD NORRIS WILLIAMS II ACCEPTING THE TROPHY HE WON IN THE NATIONAL DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP
  1925  
  (1912) CAPTAIN ARTHUR ROSTRON
This portrait of Carpathia's commander was published in the 1912 book 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'...
  1912  
Camden Post-Telegram (1912) MANY MOURN FOR MR. FRED. SUTTON
Haddonfield Man Who Went Down With Titanic in Numerous Corporations --- BUDGET OF GOSSIP FROM THE BOROUGH --- As no word has been received concerning Frederick Sutton, of Haddonfield, it seems certain that he perish...
20th April 1912  
  JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY
The most famous studio portrait of Mr. Ismay, published in 1912 in 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'....
   
Sphere (1912) INVENTOR OF THE LIFEBOAT
The grave of John Lukin, the original inventor of the lifeboat. He received the King’s patent for his invention in the year 1784, according to his gravestone. (The Sphere, December 21, 1912.) Lukin predates by ...
21st December 1912  
  (1912) PORTRAIT OF ANNA TURJA
Anna Turja after her arrival in America....
  1912  
New York Times (1941) WM. K. DICK MARRIES MRS. VIRGINIA CONNER
Chairman of the National Sugar Refining Co. Weds in Akron --- Word has been received here of the marriage of Mrs. Virginia Keniston Conner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin S. Conner of this city, to William K. Dick of this city and Al...
25th December 1941  
  BERTHE LEROY IN LATER LIFE
Berthe Leroy is pictured with a book of poems by Mahala Douglas. The portrait on the desk is also of Mrs Douglas. Berthe is wearing a brooch bearing a picture of the Carpathia....
   
Godalming and District News (1912) POST OFFICE MEMORIAL
At the Godalming Post Office, where Phillips was employed as a telegraphist for three years before leaving to enter the Marconi School at Liverpool, the Postmaster (Mr. W. R. Williams), and his staff have provided a suitable memorial to their ...
4th May 1912  
Camden Daily Courier (1912) SURE SUTTON HAS PERISHED AT SEA
Relatives Return From New York Feeling Sure He Went Down on Titanic --- A DAY'S EVENTS AT HADDONFIELD --- Haddonfield, N. J., April 20---No word has yet been received concerning the whereabouts of Frederick Sutton, and it ...
20th April 1912  
  (1919) WILLIAM THOMAS STEAD, A PORTRAIT
The French magazine 'Sciences et Voyages' published a long article highly criticizing mediums and seers in 1919. They noted that Stead, who had founded the Bureau Julia, was completely unable to foresee his own death on the Titanic....
  1919  
  ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY CENOTAPH
Maj, Butt, a devout Episcopalian, chose the Celtic cross. There is a plaque on each side of the base. : On the back: A devoted son and brother, an efficient officer...
   
  (1911) CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN SMITH ON OLYMPIC
Famous portrait of Captain Smith taken on the Olympic in 1911 and published in 1912 in 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'....
  May 1911  
  (1911) CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN SMITH ON OLYMPIC
Another famous portrait of Captain Smith taken on the Olympic in 1911 and published in 1912 in 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'....
  May 1911  
New York Times (1912) AUTEUIL SOUNDS THE PANNIER'S DOOM
Smart Display of Summer Fashions at Paris Race Course Shows Radical Style Changes --- NOVEL ROBESPIERRE GOWNS --- Immense Crowd Out to See the French Grand National---Americans Less Numerous Than Usual...
24th June 1912  
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  
  (1915) MINUTES OF TITANIC RELIEF FUND
Liverpool Area Committee No. 415. Franklin, Mrs. B. Address for cheques: The National Provincial Bank of England Limited, London Street, Norwich. Net monthly allowance to widow £3. 7 2d one child £1 1 8d total £4 8 10d....
1st December 1915  
Falmouth Penryn Packet (2009) FALMOUTH REVEALS MORE TITANIC MEMORABILIA
The National Maritime Museum Cornwall has been lent two more fascinating artefacts with a Cornish connection. Local historian and author Ernie Warmington has come forward with a Christmas card and memorial postcard....
2nd June 2009  
Arcadia News Leader (2009) 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  
Falmouth Penryn Packet (2008) UNIQUE TITANIC EXHIBITION IN FALMOUTH
The National Maritime Museum Cornwall's announcement of a new Titanic exhibition and a request for locals to get in touch with their memories has revealed some incredible stories....
29th December 2008  
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  
Chicago Inter Ocean (1912) HUMAN BUZZARDS OF SEA SINK WITH TITANIC
Special Dispatch to the Inter-Ocean New York, April 19.—Figures familiar to Forty-Second street will be missing in the cafes of the Great White Way when the lights are brightest as one of the results of the foundering o...
20th April 1912  
BBC News (2007) HISTORIC SHIP RECORDS GO ONLINE
Details of more than 30 million people who emigrated from Britain by ship are being published on a new website. Previously family history researchers would have had to make the journey to The National Archives in London to read the lists...
10th January 2007  
New York Times (1953) WILLIAM DICK DIES; AN INDUSTRIALIST
Director of the National Sugar Refining Co., Best Foods, Inc., and Irving Trust Was 65 --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- ISLIP, L. I., Sept. 5---William K. Dick, industrialist, banker and grandson of a pioneer in the f...
6th September 1953  
New York Times (1914) MRS. STRAUS LEFT $319,940
Titanic Victim's Estate Divided Equally Among Six Children --- Mrs. Ida Straus, who perished with her husband, Isidor Straus, in the Titanic disaster on April 15, 1912, left a net estate of $319,940, according to an appraisal of her est...
29th April 1914  
  BALLARD RETURNS WITH NOAA
Breathtaking... Nearly 20 years after first finding the sunken remains of the R.M.S. Titanic, marine explorer Robert Ballard returned in June 2004 helped by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)......
   
  EUGENE DALY WITH PIPES, 1910
Eugene Daly as a member of the Irish National Foresters band, Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland, 1910. Contributor's collection. ...
   
  (1912) SENATOR W. A. SMITH
Portrait of Senator W. A. Smith, from an unidentified French paper (Le Matin, 23 May 1912 ?)...
  1912  
Manchester Evening News (2006) TITANIC TRIUMPH FOR RED VISION
RED Vision, the Manchester-based computer generated imagery and visual effects production company, has won the Outstanding Achievement in Craft Award at the National Royal Television Awards 2006 for its work on Titanic: Birth of a Legend....
5th December 2006  
New York Times (1923) R. W. DANIEL WED TO MRS. CAMPBELL
Vice President of Liberty National Bank Marries Daughter of W. C. Durant in Newark *** Robert W. Daniel of 19 West Sixty-ninth Street, Vice President of the Liberty National Bank of this city, and Mrs. Marjorie Durant Campbell of 635 P...
7th December 1923  
Herkimer Evening Telegram (2008) 'TITANIC, THE MUSICAL' OPENS THURSDAY
The Ilion Central School production of 'Titanic, the Musical' will kick off Music in Our Schools Month this weekend, getting a jump start on the national celebration of music in education which runs throughout March....
27th February 2008  
  (2007) THE CAP ARCONA : GALLERY OF A LOVELY - DOOMED LINER
The Cap Arcona Perhaps the loveliest of the “forgotten” liners is Hamburg-Sudamerikanische’s Cap Arcona. She was conceived and built in the mid-1920s for service between Northern Europe and Argentin...
14th July 2007  
Somerset Standard (1912) JOHN GILL
The John Gill, one of the Titanic victims, whose body was recovered the other day, was late chauffeur to the Rev. C R Braithwaite, vicar of Hewish St Ann, near Puxton. He met his death exactly two months after his wedding day. He left his bride with ...
  1912  
Camden Daily Courier (1912) NOTHING HEARD OF FREDERICK SUTTON
Relatives and friends of Frederick Sutton, of Haddonfield, who was on board the Titanic when she sank on Sunday night after colliding with a huge iceberg, have given up all hope of his survival. Mr. Sutton was president of the Collingswood National B...
18th April 1912  
New York Times (1948) 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  
New York Times (1923) WEIRD MISFORTUNES BLAMED ON MUMMY
Beautiful but Malignant Priestess Is Said to Resent Touching Her Coffin Lid --- IT IS IN BRITISH MUSEUM --- Officials Call Stories Myths, but Superstitious Even Blame Her for Sinking of Titanic --- Copyright,...
7th April 1923  
4RFV (2008) PIONEER PRODUCTIONS BRINGS SCIENCE TO STORY OF TITANIC
Independent producer Pioneer Productions has been commissioned by Channel 4, National Geographic Channel US and Discovery Canada to present the story of 'Titanic' from a new analytical perspective in a drama documentary....
21st August 2008  
Newark Evening News (1912) WILDWOOD MAN THOUGHT LOST
WILDWOOD, April 18---Friends of Frederick Sutton, of this place, president of the West Jersey Electric Company, say that he is among those who perished in the Titanic disaster. His name [does not appear?] in the list of the saved. N...
18th April 1912  
Exeter Flying Post (1912) THE TITANIC DISASTER
At a special meeting of the St. David’s (Exeter) District Committee of the National Deposit Friendly Society a vote of condolence was passed with Mr. and Mrs. Dyer in the loss of their son in the Titanic disaster. The deceased was a member of the St...
27th April 1912  
New York Times (1929) R. W. DANIEL MARRIES MRS. C. B. CHRISTIAN
President of Liberty National Bank Weds as Third Wife Distant Relative in Virginia --- Special to The New York Times --- RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 10---Robert W. Daniel, president of the Liberty National Bank of New York, and Mr...
11th October 1929  
The Times (1926) BELFAST SHIPBUILDER'S ESTATE
The RIGHT HON. ALEXANDER MONTGOMERY CARLISLE, of Orme-square, W., for some years general mannager and chairman of Messrs. Harland and Wolff, shipbuilders and engineers, of Belfast, and lately a director ...
10th April 1926  
New York Times (1913) OBITUARY NOTES
J. ALPHEUS VANSANT, a member of the firm of Sutton & Vansant, coffee dealers of Philadelphia, died Friday in Pasadena, Cal. His partner, Frederick Sutton, who lived in Haddonsfield,[sic; should be "Haddonfield"] N.J., was lost in the Titanic. Mr. V...
9th February 1913  
New York Times (1950) CABINET IS SALE FEATURE
Mahogany Breakfront Brings $585 in $51,640 Auction --- A Regency mahogany and grillwork breakfront cabinet with Roman portrait medallions, circa 1820, was sold to a private collector for $585 yesterday at the final session of the sale ...
24th September 1950  
The Times (1912) THE TITANIC INQUIRY: LADY DUFF GORDON'S EVIDENCE
The inquiry into the loss of the Titanic was resumed yesterday by Lord Mersey and his Assessors. There was no diminution in the public interest taken in the proceedings. Among those present were Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein, Lady St. Helier, L...
21st May 1912  
Redditch Advertiser FORGE MILL'S TITANIC EXHIBITION
REDDITCH residents are being taken on a dramatic trip back in time at the Titanic Honour and Glory exhibition at Forge Mill Needle Museum. The award-winning exhibition will be on at the Redditch Council-run museum in Needle Mill Lane, Rive...
   
Berrows Journal (2009) GROUP'S TITANIC MUSICAL IS UP FOR AN AWARD
A WORCESTER drama group is hoping it will be third time lucky after being nominated for an award for its performance of the musical Titanic. Worcester Operatic and Dramatic Society (WODS) is among the nominees aiming to win the award for best musical staged during 2008 in the National Operatic and Dramatic Association's West Midland's region....
9th March 2009  
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea News (1998) 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  
Philadelphia Inquirer (1912) WILDWOOD BUSINESS MAN AMONG MISSING
Special to The Inquirer --- WILDWOOD, N. J., April 17---Never was so much sympathy expressed by the residents of Five Mile Beach as over the tidings that Frederick Sutton, the well-known business man, is listed among the missing probabl...
18th April 1912  
Belfast Telegraph (2008) NOMADIC JOINS ELITE LIST OF FINE SHIPS
The Titanic's little sister has joined an elite list of the finest historical ships in the UK to have survived to the present day. The SS Nomadic (pictured above) joins the likes of the Cutty Sark, the Mary Rose and the Royal Yacht Britannia on a list of just 61 ships that form the Core Collection of the National Register of Historic Vessels (NRHV). The 96-year-old, Belfast-built ship was tender to many of the great transatlantic liners and also served in two world wars....
5th September 2008  
Dictionary of National Biography (1901) ISMAY, THOMAS HENRY
ISMAY, THOMAS HENRY (1837-1899), shipowner, eldest son of Joseph Ismay, of Marypoint, [sic; should be "Maryport], Cumberland, was born there on 7 Jan. 1837. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to a firm of shipbrokers (...
   
  PROBATE REPORTS
Bailey, Annie Margaret of Fourwynds, 2 Wellesworth Lane, Bowes Hill, Rowlands Castle, Hampshire (wife of Joseph Northey Bailey) died 1 March 1960. Probate Winchester 9 May 1960 to National Provincial Bank Limited. Effects £22894 6s 11d ...
   
  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 ...
   
Newark Evening News (1912) W. HULL BOTSFORD, OF ORANGE, MAY BE LOST
W. Hull Botsford. of Orange, is believed to be among the second cabin passengers on the Titanic who were lost. Mr. Botsford has been touring in Europe since early in February, and although he was not expected home before the end of the month, the nam...
17th April 1912  
Evening News (1988) FRANK MILLET
Frank Millet, 65, a distinguished artist, author and war correspondent who had lived the last 25 years of his life in Broadway, and was widely popular in the picturesque Cotswold village. He was born in America, served as a drummer boy w...
24th January 1988  
Camden Post-Telegram (1912) DIRECTORS OF BANK MOURN FOR SUTTON
Collingswood Board May Elect Successor to President Who Was Titanic Victim --- BUDGET OF GOSSIP FROM THE BOROUGH The Titanic disaster is the cause of a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Collingswood National Bank t...
25th April 1912  
  ANCESTORS ON BOARD
Findmypast.com, in association with The National Archives, is proud to present ancestorsonboard, a new database featuring BT27 Outward Passenger Lists for long-distance voyages leaving the British Isles from 1960 right back to 1890. With ancestors...
   
  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. ...
   
New York Times (1968) R. NORRIS WILLIAMS 2D, TENNIS TITLIST, DEAD AT 77
Survivor of Titanic's Sinking Was on 7 Davis Cup Teams---Pennsylvania Historian --- Special to The New York Times --- PHILADELPHIA, June 3---R. Norris Williams 2d, former national tennis champion and a survivor of the sin...
4th June 1968  
Evening News (1986) MILLET
''Drowned, too was a famous man from Broadway - 65-years-old F. D. Millet, a distinguished artist, author and war correspondent who lived at Russell House on the main approach from Evesham into the picturesque Worcestershire village. ...
5th August 1986  
Los Angeles Times (1933) RACE SWINDLER SUSPECTS HELD
Victim Spends Year on Trail of Asserted Fleecers ---------- SAN JOSE, July 4. (AP) - Charged with swindling J. T. Taylor, retired New Yorker, out of $27,000 in a fake horse race deal, C. W. Coleman 55 years of age, and...
5th July 1933  
  (1913) THE BUTT-MILLET MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN, 1913
The Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain was erected by the contributions of friends of Major Archibald Willingham Butt and Francis Davis Millet. "The 8-foot-high fountain is composed of a marble shaft of simple Neo-c...
  1913  
New York Times (1932) MARION SCRANTON MARRIED
Wedded at Scranton, Pa., to Edward Mayer of This City --- Special to The New York Times --- SCRANTON, Pa., Jan. 16---Miss Marion Margery Scranton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Worthington Scranton, the latter a member of the R...
17th January 1932  
New York Times (1916) GUGGENHEIM ESTATE VALUED AT $3,551,994
Victim of Titanic Disaster Left Widow $785,199---Daughters Get About $500,000 Each --- MANY CHARITABLE BEQUESTS --- Sisters Receive Incomes from Trust Funds of $75,000 and Sisters-in-Law from $25,000 --- Benj...
18th January 1916  
New York Times (1913) STRAUS FOUNTAIN AWARD TO LUKEMAN
With Evarts Tracy, Architect, Sculptor Wins in Contest Including 59 Designs --- HE'LL GET $10,000 FOR WORK --- Four Other "Next Best" Designs Get Prize Money from $500 Down to $100 Each --- From a collection of fift...
21st March 1913  
New York Times (1912) KARL H. BEHR
Karl H. Behr, one of the foremost tennis players in this country, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Behr of 777 Madison Avenue. He is a lawyer at 40 Wall Street, having been admitted to the bar soon after his graduation from Yale in 1905. Mr. Behr wh...
16th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) BOSTON MAN MISSING
A. W. Newell's Two Daughters Among Survivors, but No Report of Him --- Special to The New York Times --- BOSTON, April 16---Nearly a dozen Boston men, known to have been aboard the Titanic, are unaccounted for. Some were a...
16th April 1912  
New York Times (1940) ROBERT W. DANIEL, EX-BANKER HERE, 56
Virginia State Senator, Once Head of Liberty National, Stricken in Richmond --- OWNED HISTORIC ESTATE --- Brandon-on James Was Visited by Many Presidents---Was Survivor of the Titanic --- RICHMOND, Va., Dec. ...
21st December 1940  
New York Times (1912) BUTT-MILLET MEMORIAL
President Taft and Washington Friends Raise Funds for a Tablet --- WASHINGTON, May 30---President Taft, members of the Diplomatic Corps in Washington, and many high Government officials have contributed to a fund of several thousand dol...
31st May 1912  
San Francisco Bulletin (1919) DR. DODGE DYING, IS REPORT
Page 1, column 4 Dr. Washington Dodge, banker, former county Assessor and former Supervisor, who shot himself in the head Saturday night, is dying at the St. Francis Hospital, according to reports from his bedside today. Si...
28th June 1919  
Washington Times (1912) FRANCIS D. MILLET, SOLDIER, PAINTER, AND CONNOISSEUR
Francis D. Millet, while comparatively unknown even to Washingtonians, despite the fact that he has made this city his home for years, and has given the best of his artistic life toward the beautification of Washington, was one of the city’s most pic...
16th March 1912  
New York Times (1979) PEGGY GUGGENHEIM IS DEAD AT 81; KNOWN FOR MODERN ART COLLECTION
By The Associated Press --- VENICE, Dec. 23 - Peggy Guggenheim, the expatriate American millionaire who amassed one of the world's foremost collections of modern art, died in a hospital outside Venice today, hospital officials said. Sh...
24th December 1979  
Evening Bulletin (1912) MRS. BREWE COLLAPSES
Widow 0f Physician Lost on Titanic in Serious Condition at Her Home Here --- Crushed under the news of the death of her husband, Dr. Arthur Jackson Brewe, on board the Titanic, Mrs. Brewe is in se...
20th April 1912  
The Times (1924) OBITUARY---MR. C. BOWER ISMAY
Mr. Charles Bower Ismay, of Hazelbeech Hall, Northampton, who had been ill for some weeks, died yesterday morning. He was well known on the Turf, and was the owner of Craganour, which ran in the famous Derby of 1913. His grandfather, Joseph Ismay was...
26th May 1924  
  MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND
(From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) Number 9. Murdoch, Ada F. Widow. Class A dependent. (From The Titanic Relief Fund booklet March 1913). C 9. Murdoch, Ada F. Widow....
   
Washington Times (1912) ACTOR IS WORRIED OVER FATE OF MAN ON UNFORTUNATE SHIP
"Rene is safe; am uncertain about Harry; will wire you definite information as soon as received." This is the only comforting word received by Frank McIntyre, now appearing at the National Theater in “Snobs” and his company, which is a...
17th April 1912  
ET Research (2005) TITANIC TEXT : DEMYSTIFYING HISTORICAL STUDY
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  
  MEMORIALS TO JACK PHILLIPS
Phillips, John George (Jack). Chief Wireless Operator. Has perhaps the largest Titanic memorial, namely 'The Phillips Memorial Cloister', by the River Wey, covering some three acres, at Godalming, Surrey. Inscribed on the memorial stone is: 'The Cloi...
   
New York Times (1925) LEWY BROS., JEWELERS, FAIL
Settlement Involving $1,400,000 Defeated by Court Action --- Special to The New York Times --- CHICAGO, Nov. 23---An involuntary petition in bankruptcy against Lewy Brothers, Jewelers, filed today in the United States Cour...
24th November 1925  
Atlantic City Daily Press (1912) PROBATE WILL OF TITANIC VICTIM
Frederick Sutton, Coffee Importer, Leaves $50,000 and Upwards to Family ---------- The will of Frederick Sutton, of Haddonfield, N. J., who lost his life in the wreck of the steamship Titanic, was probated yesterday aftern...
30th April 1912  
New York Times (1913) $4,427,608 ESTIMATE OF STRAUS ESTATE
The Figures, However, Are Tentative, as Final Appraisal Has Not Been Filed --- MORE HEARINGS TO BE HELD --- Partial Schedules in the Estate of Benjamin Guggenheim Show Assets of $748,000 --- Edmond E. Wise, head of th...
11th August 1913  
The Times (1913) ANNIE ROBINSON ABOARD "GALATEA" IN 1913; CONVERSATION WITH KING AND QUEEN
The spectacle on which their Majesties looked when they embarked on the Galatea, the dock port tender, was indeed unparalleled. There never has been such an assembly of merchant vessels in review order before. The mere statistics are asto...
12th July 1913  
  THE ROSSENDALE BARD FROM ADDERGOOLE
Andrew Houston was born in Doonbreedia in the parish of Addergoole, Lahardane, Co Mayo, Irish Republic on 1st May 1849, and would have attended Rathkell National School w...
   
Liverpool Echo (2009) MARITIME TALES: CARPATHIA RESCUE MISSON TO THE TITANIC RELIVED
IT STARTED out as a routine voyage between New York and the Adriatic and ended as one of the greatest rescues in the history of the sea. The Cunard liner was not long on her journey when her radio operator contacted another ship with a sta...
10th October 2009  
New York Times (1941) 14 IN GLASS TRADE FINED IN TRUST CASE
They Plead Nolo Contendere at Chicago on Price-Fixing --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- CHICAGO, Jan. 22---Fourteen corporate and individual defendants in the glazing industry, accused of fixing prices of glass...
23rd January 1941  
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  
Washington Times (1912) PRESIDENT’S AIDE AMONG PASSENGERS ON CRIPPLED SHIP
Major Butt Was to Have Returned to Capital Shortly --- Major Archibald Butt, military aid to President; Clarence Moore, prominent in Washington social and financial circles, as well as one of the city’s best known horsemen; Frank D. Mil...
16th April 1912  
Denver Post (1922) WEALTHY COLORADO MINE OWNER DIES
Page 1 and 3 James Brown, Multi-Millionaire, Once Denverite Gained Riches at Leadville James J. Brown, former Denver multi-millionaire mine owner, who became famous as one of the four original owners of the Ibex or Lit...
7th September 1922  
New York Times (1912) PEACE MEN MOURN THEIR LOSS
Andrew Carnegie Signs Resolutions of Regret for Five Members --- The National Committee for the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of peace among English-speaking peoples in 1914-1915 sent out yesterday this resolution passed ...
21st April 1912  
San Francisco Call & Post (1919) 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  
San Francisco Chronicle (1912) DR. DODGE AND FAMILY MAY HAVE MISSED TITANIC
Page 2 [Photo] Assessor Washington Dodge, Mrs. Washington Dodge Relatives of Assessor Received Word That He Would Stop Over in Paris Shortly before 2 o'clock this morning the "Chronicle" was notified by...
16th April 1912  
San Francisco Bulletin (1919) SUICIDAL BULLET IS FATAL TO DR. DODGE
Page 1, Column 4 PHYSICIAN EXPIRES FROM SHOT Dr. Washington Dodge died early today in St. Francis Hospital as the result of a bullet wound which he inflicted June 21 while in a fit of despondency brought on by illness....
30th June 1919  
  (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  
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  
  (1910) SAMUEL GOLDENBERG'S FIRST DISASTER
The French paper Le Journal, on 20 April 1912, read: "Mr. S.-L. Goldenberg crosses the Atlantic three times a year; he was a passenger on the liner that caused the Pluviôse disaster. As an important lace importer, he is well known on t...
26th May 1910  
Castle Carey Visitor (1912) CARYITES ON BOARD
The loss of the Titanic has been keenly felt in Castle Cary: as apart from its being a National Disaster, there were a number of Caryites on board. Mr. Sam Herman, for many years a butcher in the town, and for some years proprietor of the Britannia H...
  April 1912  
The Evening Post (1912) LEAPS FROM LINER’S DECK.
Major Walker Takes His Life at Sea   ...
20th April 1912  
Kerry Sentinel (1912) THE TITANIC'S TRALEE DOCTOR
FRIENDS TO HONOUR HIS MEMORY Queenstown, Monday. It is a pleasure to know that the many memorials which are to be raised in connection with the Titanic disaster, the popular Irish physician, Dr F N O'Loughlin is not to be forgot...
25th May 1912  
New York Times Book Review (1956) THE LEGENDS STAY AFLOAT
DOWN TO ETERNITY.  By Richard O'Connor. 191 pp. New York:Gold Medal Books. 35 cents. --- By BURKE WILKINSON --- Anyone interested in the Titanic disaster will want to read this book, if only to com...
19th February 1956  
Belfast Telegraph TITANIC'S SISTER SHIP NOMADIC 'LEFT TO ROT'
The Titanic’s little sister has been left to all but rot away for three years as she awaits decisions on how she will be restored, it has been claimed. Rupert Keyzar has spent almost three years caring for SS Nomadic, the tender that carried fi...
   
The Shipwrecked Mariner Quarterly Maritime Magazine (1882) SHIPBUILDING IN IRELAND
SHIPBUILDING IN IRELAND.-Whatever may be said of other branches of Irish industry, its shipbuilding may, it would appear, compare not unfavourably with that of any other part of the kingdom. The Clyde claims pre-eminence, but Mes...
   
Washington Times (1912) NATION MAY RAISE GREAT MEMORIAL TO DISASTER’S HERO
Whole Country Likely to Be Asked to Contribute to Fund for Monument to Major Butt, Who Gave Life for Others --- An agitation has been started at the White House among the friends of Major Archibald Butt for the erection of a memorial mo...
20th April 1912  
BBC News (2009) UK DIVER DIES ON BRITANNIC FILM SHOOT
A British man has died during an underwater filming mission, the Greek government has said.The diver, 37, was part of a National Geographic crew exploring a British ship, which was sunk during World War I and is owned by a UK businessman....
24th May 2009  
guardian.co.uk (2009) SINKING OF THE TITANIC: THE WATERY SOUND MEDITATION RETURNS
Gavin Bryars's piece of 'conceptual art' music has been performed in a swimming pool and water tower by child violinists and an experimental DJ. It now comes to the Roundhouse Comments (1)The Sinking of the Titanic, whose latest incarnat...
11th May 2009  
San Francisco Chronicle (1919) DR. WASHINGTON DODGE DIES AT LOCAL HOSPITAL
Section 2, page 13, columns 7-8 [Photo] Gunshot Wound, Inflicted in Attempt to Kill Himself June 21, Causes Death RELATIVES AT BEDSIDE Financier and Ex-Assessor Unconscious for 3 Days Befo...
1st July 1919  
New York Times (1912) NEW VERSION OF BUTT'S TRIP
Was Passenger on Titanic at the Whim of Close Friend --- Richard B. Watrous, Secretary of the American Civic Association, with offices in Washington, watched the bulletin boards in Times Square with great anxiety yesterday to see if any...
17th April 1912  
New York Times (1934) EX-WIFE GIVES UP CLAIM ON W. K. DICK
Bride of Fiermonte, Boxer, and Once Widow of J. J. Astor, Rejects Dower --- GOT DIVORCE LAST JULY --- She Also Relinquished $300,000 Income From First Husband's Estate When She Wed in 1916 --- Mrs. Enzo Fierm...
21st March 1934  
ET Reviews (2009) LOST VOICES OF THE TITANIC : THE DEFINITIVE ORAL HISTORY
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21st October 2009  
The Evening Post (1912) MASSACHUSETTS VICTIMS OF THE TITANIC TRAGEDY
George Q Clifford of Stoughton, president of Belcher Last company, Herbert Henry Hilliard of 42 Hichorn street, Brighton Timothy J.,...
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1937) J. BRUCE ISMAY, 74, TITANIC SURVIVOR
Ex-Head of White Star Line Who Retired After Sea Tragedy Dies in London --- LONDON, Oct. 18 (AP)---Joseph Bruce Ismay, former chairman of the White Star Line and a survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912, died here last night. He was 7...
19th October 1937  
New York Times (1912) STRAUS A FAMOUS MERCHANT
Member Both of R. H. Macy & Co. and Abraham & Straus --- Isidor Straus, who, with Mrs. Straus, was aboard the Titanic, was born in Rhenish Bavaria on Feb. 6, 1845. His father's family came to this country in 1852, and settled at Talbott...
16th April 1912  
San Francisco Examiner (1919) DR. DODGE DIES FROM WOUNDS HE INFLICTED
Page 8, column 1 Former Banker, Assessor and Supervisor Succumbs Nine Days After Attempt at Suicide Funeral Service Will Be Held on Thursday Morning: Bishop Nichols Will Be in Charge Dr. Washington Dodg...
1st July 1919  
Galesburg.com (2008) GALESBURG MAN LED A CHARMED BUT HARROWING LIFE
Tracking History — On Sunday evening, April 14, 1913, a wall caved in at the historic Lindell House Hotel on Depot Street near the Knox College campus. Originally known as the American Hotel it...
16th May 2008  
Elizabeth Daily Journal (1912) RAHWAY MAN ON LOST SHIP
Arthur Keefe Passenger on Liner Titanic ---------- SISTER ANXIOUSLY AWAITS NEWS OF DISASTER ---------- (Special to the Journal) Rahway, April 16---Almost frantic with anxiety and grief, Mrs. Margaret O’Brien...
16th April 1912  
  LETTER FROM CATERINA GILARDINO, NIECE OF VINCENZO GILARDINO
I do not know the year Vincenzo Gilardino came to England but it must have been in the last years of the 1800s because in 1901 my father (Paulo) Gustavo, Vincenzo's brother, was sent to England by their father to try + persuade Vincenzo to return to ...
   
New York Times (1899) THOMAS HENRY ISMAY DEAD
Founder and Chairman of Board of Directors of White Star Line---Gave £20,000 for Poor Sailors --- LIVERPOOL, Nov. 23---Thomas Henry Ismay, the founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the White Star Line Steamship Company, died...
24th November 1899  
New York Times (1949) KARL H. BEHR DIES; DILLON, READ AIDE
Page 87, column 3 Vice President of Banking Firm for 24 Years Once Known as Leading Tennis Player. Karl H. Behr, vice president of Dillon, Read & Co., bankers, 28 Nassau Street, who was one of the country's leading tenni...
16th October 1949  
New York Times (1940) CHICAGO'S GLAZERS ACCUSED ON PRICES
Federal Indictments Charge Industry Joined in Fixing a Common Schedule --- UNION AS THE ENFORCER --- Fifth Action in Investigation of Building Trades Cites Seven Corporations --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES...
11th May 1940  
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  
New York Times (1934) MOTHER OF ASTOR TO ATTEND BRIDAL
Despite Illness, Mrs. Fiermonte Goes Alone to Newport for Marriage to Miss French --- FORMER HUSBAND A GUEST --- W. K. Dick to Be in Trinity Church Today---Rehearsal for the Ceremony Takes Place --- Special ...
30th June 1934  
 

 
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