Smoking

66 items found relating to : Smoking

POSTWAR 3. THE SMOKING ROOM.   POSTWAR 3. THE SMOKING ROOM.
THE SMOKING ROOM: Favorite rendez-vous of many Nieuw Amsterdam passengers is the handsome First Class Smoking Room with its rich Circassian walnut paneling and deep, luxurious armchairs and settees. Flanked by two enclosed sun verandahs exte...
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SMOKING ROOM DECORATIVE PANEL   SMOKING ROOM DECORATIVE PANEL
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CAP ARCONA SMOKING ROOM   CAP ARCONA SMOKING ROOM
The Cap Arcona's smoking room was perhaps her most North Atlantic liner-like interior. The 62' x 52 x 13.9' space was paneled in dark walnut, and featured a marble fireplalce set into a marble wall. This was as close to Moderne as any ...
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MORRO CASTLE - SMOKING ROOM   MORRO CASTLE - SMOKING ROOM
Aft of the lounge, and beyond the second casing, was the First Class smoking room. Again, the paneling was a medium-toned wood with gilt detailing. Along the forward bulkhead was a fireplace as elaborate as that in the lounge, and overhead the cei...
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HINDENBURG SMOKING ROOM   HINDENBURG SMOKING ROOM
A corner of the Smoking Room, the most elaborately fireprotected public room aboard the ship....
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Daily Northwestern SAW THE ICEBERG
Silverthorne account...
17th April 1912
THIRD CLASS SMOKING ROOM   THIRD CLASS SMOKING ROOM
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THE GRAND STAIRWAY   THE GRAND STAIRWAY
The Grand Stairway, sweeping upward from the Smoking Room, is regal in its proportions and dazzling in its decoration....
1937 Gare Maritime
VESTRIS : SMOKING ROOM   VESTRIS : SMOKING ROOM
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NIEUW AMSTERDAM : SMOKING ROOM FOYER.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : SMOKING ROOM FOYER.
SMOKING ROOM FOYER: Piet van der Wilt is responsible for a fine tapestry-like painting on wood, which traces, in a well balanced composition, the development of shipping from early times. Commencing at the upper left, it shows the coracles of the ...
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NIEUW AMSTERDAM : TOURIST CLASS SMOKING ROOM STATUE. 1938.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : TOURIST CLASS SMOKING ROOM STATUE. 1938.
Suriname Negro. This statue, and its mate, Suriname Negress, stood in the Tourist Class Smoking Room, prewar. The room, which served as the liner's Music Room on one-class cruises, was replaced by a new Cabin Class theatre postwar....
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Chicago Inter Ocean 50 TITANIC BELLBOYS DIED SMOKING AS WOMEN FILLED BOATS
New York, April 20—Among the many hundreds of heroic souls who went bravely and quietly to their end were fifty happy-go-lucky youngsters shipped as bellboys or messengers to serve the first cabin passengers. James Humphries, a quartermaster...
21st April 1912
CAPTAIN STANLEY LORD   CAPTAIN STANLEY LORD
LOUNGE COLOUR PHOTOGRAPH   LOUNGE COLOUR PHOTOGRAPH
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NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THIRD CLASS SMOKING ROOM- 1938.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THIRD CLASS SMOKING ROOM- 1938.
THIRD CLASS SMOKING ROOM: Main Deck. Has a brightly decorated cocktail bar just inside its entrance. The room is extremely cozy and luxurious. The walls are watered teakwood, finished with transparent lacquer. The color scheme is light brown and gree...
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STATENDAM 1929. CA. 1923 BROCHURE. SECOND CLASS SMOKING  ROOM.   STATENDAM 1929. CA. 1923 BROCHURE. SECOND CLASS SMOKING ROOM.
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  RMS OLYMPIC ARCHIVE FILM (3)
Taking the elevators; the grand staircase; dancing in the saloon; smoking room; at Cherbourg; Nomadic comes alongside; passengers disembark...
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : SMOKING ROOM. 1938.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : SMOKING ROOM. 1938.
SMOKING ROOM: Outstanding features of the Smoking Room, which Frits A. Eschauzier designed, are the ingenious manner in which the light and airy raised side verandahs relieve the dark panel work of the room proper. These ā€œsun wingsā€ are a gallant...
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NIEUW AMSTERDAM : SMOKING ROOM BAR. ARCHITECT'S RENDERING.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : SMOKING ROOM BAR. ARCHITECT'S RENDERING.
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GRILL ROOM STAIR DOWN TO SMOKE ROOM   GRILL ROOM STAIR DOWN TO SMOKE ROOM
1935 Gare Maritime
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THIRD CLASS SMOKING ROOM AND COCKTAIL BAR. ARCHITECT'S RENDERING.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THIRD CLASS SMOKING ROOM AND COCKTAIL BAR. ARCHITECT'S RENDERING.
Ā ...
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NORMANDIE: GRILL ROOM STAIRCASE LOOKING INTO SMOKING ROOM 1935   NORMANDIE: GRILL ROOM STAIRCASE LOOKING INTO SMOKING ROOM 1935
1935 Gare Maritime
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THIRD CLASS SMOKE ROOM- 1938   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THIRD CLASS SMOKE ROOM- 1938
THIRD CLASS SMOKING ROOM: Features walls of watered teakwood with green leather upholstery and matching curtains. Nearby, the intimate ā€œTouristā€ bar serves the needs of thirsty passengers. ...
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  ALFRED NOURNEY OBITUARY
Arne Mjåland
Translated from German language by Arne Mjaland: He died 60 years after the Titanic. Tennis club lost honour member . On the April 15 1912 he experienced the most terrible night in his  life. In  February this ye...
18th November 1972
Newark Evening News HENRY BLANK DECLARES CURIOSITY SAVED HIM
It was the desire of Henry Blank, a jeweler of this city, who lives in Glen Ridge, to find out what caused the shock to the Titanic when she struck the iceberg Sunday night that gave him a chance in one of the boats that saved his life. ...
19th April 1912
The Times MR. A. H. BARKWORTH
Mr. A. H. Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, said he was sitting in the smoking-room when the boat struck the iceberg. He saw Mr. W. T. Stead on deck. He described how the forecastle was full of powdered ice. He noted the foremast was listin...
20th April 1912
Brighton Argus MR. A. H. BARKWORTH
Mr. A. H. Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, said he was sitting in the smoking room when the boat struck the iceberg. He saw Mr. W. T. Stead on the deck. he described how the forecastle was full of powdered ice. He noted that the foremast w...
19th April 1912
  LETTER TO HIS OLD FRIEND ALFRED PARSONS
''On board R.M.S. Titanic April 11, 1912. Dear Alfred I got yours this morning and was glad to hear from you. I thought I told you my ship was the Titanic. She has everything but taxicabs and theatres., Table D' Hote, Restau...
11th April 1912
MEXICO CRUISE BROCHURE (INTERIORS)   MEXICO CRUISE BROCHURE (INTERIORS)
"Upper - The main lounges of the big Ward Liners are cool, restful, graciously inviting. Left Center - There's a rich, serene, masculine atmosphere to the smoking rooms.Ā  Center - A Tea Room - bright, breezy, with long vistas of sea and sky throu...
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  BARKWORTH'S ACCOUNT
Dictated to Mrs. Francis because his hands had been frozen. I was sitting in the smoking room with my friends when we heard a grinding sound which caused the ship to tremble . . . Engines seemed to stop. Walking out on deck, through th...
1912
POSTWAR 13. THEATRE. CABIN CLASS.   POSTWAR 13. THEATRE. CABIN CLASS.
THEATER: If you book Cabin or Tourist class on the Nieuw Amsterdam, you’ll enjoy many a first-run film in this comfortable , air conditioned motion picture theater on the Promenade Deck. Installed since the war, this theater seats 166 p...
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Chicago Daily Journal LEAPS FROM THE SHIP
Charles Williams, the racquet coach at Harrow, England, who is the professional champion of the world , was coming to New York to defend his title, said he was in the smoking room when the boat struck.  He rushed out, saw the iceberg, whic...
19th April 1912
NIEUW AMSTERDAM CARD ROOM. 1938.   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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  ADOLPHE SAALFELD POST-DISASTER
Saalfeld was in the First Class Smoking Room when the collision occurred; he was advised by a steward to go to the boat deck. In his cabin he had left samples of perfume that he was taking to America, but managed to pocket a menu card....
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : LIBRARY. 1938.   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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New York Times MILLET MEMENTOS IN ROME
Friends Find a Pathetic Interest in Visiting the Future Academy --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, April 27---A visit to the Villa Aurelia on the top of the Janiculum, wh...
28th April 1912
Chicago Daily Journal SIPPED HIGHBALL AT CRASH
C. H. Romacue of Georgetown, Ky, one of the first cabin passengers had just stepped from the deck to the smoking room and stood at a table with a highball in front of him when the crash came. “We had been crunching through ice...
19th April 1912
Washington Times MEN SNEAKED INTO BOATS, SAYS WOMAN
Mrs. Jacques Futrelle, Wife of Novelist, Says Many Were Brave, However --- NEW YORK, April 19---Mrs. Jacques Futrelle, who was rescued, but whose husband, the novelist, went down with the Titanic, declared today that the men who were sa...
19th April 1912
LUCIEN P. SMITH'S DECEMBER BABY Sphere LUCIEN P. SMITH'S DECEMBER BABY
Mary Eloise Smith pregnant on Titanic...
28th December 1912
The Witney Gazette GAMBLERS ON TITANIC ESCAPE BY DRESSING AS WOMEN
An extraordinary story is reported in New York of the escape from the sinking Titanic of two well-known gamblers who, for some years, have frequented the Atlantic liners, and against whose card-sharking tricks notices have been posted on ...
11th May 1912
The New York Times THINKS TIMES LIST SAVED FATHER'S LIFE
Survivor Says Aged Man Got Hope from Interpretation of Faulty Wireless Message --- 'WILLIAMS' MEANT 'WILHEMS' --- ...
21st April 1912
HANDSOME PUBLIC ROOMS - RIO CRUISE (PAGE 5)   HANDSOME PUBLIC ROOMS - RIO CRUISE (PAGE 5)
... it is an easy matter to meet every requirement. After these come several hundred other rooms. both single and double. Raymond-Whitcomb, however, have no intention of taking passengers to anywhere near the astounding capacity of the NORMANDIE o...
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New York Times SURVIVOR SAYS ISMAY RULED IN TITANIC'S BOATS
Managing Director Had Charge Of Their Launching, Testifies Karl H. Behr....
26th June 1915
New York Times SPENCER V. SILVERTHONE DIES; MERCHANT, 88, WAS ON TITANIC
Special to The New York Times --- SCARSDALE, N. Y., May 17---Spencer V. Silverthorne, a survivor of the Titanic sinking, died today at his home, 7 Colvin Road. He was 88 years old. Mr. Silverthorne had been a vice presid...
18th May 1964
New York Times 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
The Times THE CUNARD STEAMER CARPATHIA
From Wednesday morning until that of Saturday of last week a party of visitors, which included Sir William White (late Director of Naval Construction), Messrs Moorhouse and Maxwell (General Manager and a director of the Cunard Company), were carri...
27th April 1903
Evening Banner RESCUED PASSENGER BRINGS WORD OF LOST SUPERINTENDENT
A. H. BARKWORTH OF ENGLAND Tells of Acquaintance Made With Bennington Man on Steamship's First and Last Trip. The first information relative to Charles C. Jones, the superintendent of the J. C. Colgate estate, who lost his life in the T...
26th April 1912
OLYMPIC FIND AT PITY ME Gare Maritime OLYMPIC FIND AT PITY ME
Gavin Murphy
RMS Olympic's cocktail bar in a Durham public house...
22nd January 2003 Gare Maritime
THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL Gare Maritime THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL
A family sets sail for Canada in the 1930s....
10th July 2007 Gare Maritime
New York Times MORGAN BUSY IN ROME
Wishes the Papers Would Stop Saying He Is Ill --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, April 6---This year J. Pierpont Morgan has not had his usual luck in regard to the wea...
7th April 1912
Washington Herald THOMAS WHITELEY : DESCRIBES LAST MEAL ON TITANIC
“It Was the Gayest Night of Trip Among Diners,” Says Assistant Steward --- New York, N. Y., April 20---Propped up on pillows in a bed in St. Vincent's Hospital this afternoon, Thomas Whitely, an assistant steward in the f...
21st April 1912
The Times STORIES OF THE WRECK : CAPTAIN SMITH'S HEROISM
After the men had had dinner the taking of their statements was rapidly proceeded with, and it was soon announced that a number of them were at liberty to leave the dock premises if they wished to do so. Most of them availed themselves of this per...
29th April 1912
The Times OTHER STATEMENTS BY SURVIVORS
NEW YORK APRIL 19 The following further statements have been made by survivors:- Mr A.H.Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, sai...
20th April 1912
Worcester Telegram FUTRELLE MET DEATH LIKE HERO SAYS WIFE
New York, April 19.- Mrs. May Futrelle, whose husband, Jacques Futrelle, the short story writer and novelist, went down with the ship, was met here by her daughter, Miss. Virginia Futrelle, who was brought to New York, from the convent of Notre Dame ...
20th April 1912
LETTER BY FR BYLES TO MISS FIELD   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
Trenton Evening Times ROEBLING SAID GOODBYE TO FRIENDS AND THEN PERISHED WITH BLACKWELL, HIS COMPANION
"You will be back with us on the ship again soon", were the last words of Washington A. Roebling, II, so far as Trenton relatives know. In an interview this morning at the Waldorf-Astoria between Miss Caroline Bonnell and Ferdinand W. Roebling,...
19th April 1912
TITANIC MISSION BRINGS TITANIC LUXURY TO LIFE PA TITANIC MISSION BRINGS TITANIC LUXURY TO LIFE
The luxurious surroundings enjoyed by some of the passengers on board the doomed Titanic can be seen for the first time in almost 100 years after a team of experts recreated parts of the ship....
27th September 2010
Unidentified Newspaper OLDEST TITANIC SURVIVOR PLANS VISIT TO SITE
Ceremony will honor tragic sinking BOSTON -- The oldest living survivor of the sinking of the Titanic wants to visit the site this summer and throw a rose into the Atlantic Ocean where her father went down with the ship 84 years ago. ...
10th April 1996
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : RITZ-CARLTON ROOM. 1938.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : RITZ-CARLTON ROOM. 1938.
RITZ-CARLTON ROOM: The Ritz-Carlton room is located on the Upper Promenade deck, immediately above the Smoking Room and is reached by an impressive ebony and bronze Y-shaped stairway. On either side of the stairs where they divide port from starb...
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