Brooklyn Bridge

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New York Times	CHARLES G. ROEBLING, BRIDGE BUILDER., DIES Engineer and Philanthropist, Head of John A. Roebling's Sons Co. Expires in Trenton at 69 --- Charles Gustavus Roebling, millionaire philanthropist and engineer, who, with his brother, Washington Augustus Roebling, completed the constru...	6th October 1918
	CONCERT BY THE APOLLO CLUB, BROOKLYN IN AID OF MUSICIANS' FAMILIES This is a booklet presenting the concert given by the Apollo Club, in Brooklyn, on 9 May 1912, "in aid of the families of the musicians who perished by the sinking of the Titanic". This document was presented to us by the family of Roger Bricoux, cel...	9th May 1912
	CAPTAIN SMITH ON BRIDGE OF OLYMPIC OR TITANIC
	SMITH IN STARBOARD BRIDGE WING CAB
Cork Examiner	TITANIC GANTRY DESIGNER DIES Sir William Arrol and two disasters...	8th February 1913
	CAPTAIN SMITH ON THE BRIDGE OF THE TITANIC Captain Smith photographed by a newspaper photographer on the bridge of the Titanic. Southampton, April 1912. A Engine Telegraph is visible in the background....	April 1912
	CAPTAIN SMITH AND BOY ON BRIDGE
	BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN CERTIFICATE OF DEATH DIVISION OF RECORDS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN CERTIFICATE OF DEATH # 1...	1963
Highland News	CAPTAIN GOES DOWN WITH SHIP Captain Smith - all honour to him - made absolutely no attempt to leave the ship, and insisted on going down with the vessel. The report that he committed suicide is discredited. As one of the passengers said, ''He stuck to the bridge like a hero'', ...	20th April 1912
	TITANIC POSTCARD FROM ONE SURVIVOR TO ANOTHER From Eugene Daly to Bertha Mulvihill...	20th August 1912
	MOHAWK BROCHURE 1 "Attractive furnishings and bright interiors add to the popularity of salons and music rooms." "Day and night the keen eyes of the ship's officers are alert and watchful on the bridge."...
Brooklyn Daily Times	WYCOFF VAN DERHOEF HAD BIG CIRCLE OF FRIENDS Wycoff Van Derhoef, of 109 Joralemon street, was one of the wealthiest and best known residents of the Eastern District and Secretary of the Williamsburgh City Fire Insurance Company. Mr. Van Derhoef was on his way from a visit to his sister in Euro...	16th April 1912
New York Times	SIR WILLIAM ARROL Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Feb. 20.-Sir William Arrol, biggest of British bridge builders, is dead. He constructed the present bridge over the Tay and that crossing the Firth of Forth. He was made a knight in 1890 a...	21st February 1913
Brooklyn Daily Times	BROOKLYNITES ARE LOST AS TITANIC SINKS Several Are Believed to Have Sunk With Ship --- According to the latest reports from the White Star officials there were Brooklyn and Long Island people among those who were lost when the ill fated Titanic sank. The dead ...	16th April 1912
New York Times	NOTES FOR THE YACHTSMEN Mrs. Charlotte D. M. Cardeza's steel screw bark Eleanor is being repainted and generally overhauled at Tebo's yard, South Brooklyn, preparatory to an early commission. [The balance of this article is irrelevant for present purposes, an...	21st March 1900
	FILM OF CAPTAIN SMITH These shots were taken in New York on board the Olympic probably on the occasion of her first arrival in 1911. The photographer is unknown. ...	May 1911
Brooklyn Daily Eagle	LUSITANIA ICEBERG Original Caption:...	11th May 1915
Chicago Inter Ocean	TITANIC'S CAPTAIN LEAPED FROM SINKING LINER WITH CHILD IN ARMS Two Little Children Stuck to Bridge Until Waves Broke Over Rail, and Both Were Lost When Final Plunge Came...	21st April 1912
Daily Northwestern	SAW THE ICEBERG Silverthorne account...	17th April 1912
New York Times	DEATH NOTICE VAN DERHOEF---At sea, on steamship Titanic, on Monday, April 15, 1912, Wyckoff Van Derhoef, husband of Laura E. Van Derhoef. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services at his late residence, 109 Joralemon St., Brooklyn Heights,...	2nd May 1912
	SAILING BY THE BRIDGE	1946
New York Times	DEATH NOTICE OF SANTE REGHINI REGHINI---At sea, April 15, on steamship Titanic, Sante Reghini, faithful and trusted servant in the employ of Mrs. J. Stuart White. Funeral at the residence of his sister, Mrs. Frederick Wagner, 265 89th Street, Brooklyn, Saturday, May 4, at 2 o'cl...	4th May 1912
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
Brooklyn Daily Times	SORROW AT HARDER HOME DESPITE HOPEFUL MESSAGES Word was received at the home of Victor A. Harder, at 117 Eighth avenue, that his son George A. Harder and the latter’s young bride, who was Mrs. Dorothy Annan, of Manhattan, daughter of the late Edward Annan, of Brooklyn, who were passengers on the ...	16th April 1912
New York Times	DEATH NOTICE OF FRED JOEL SWIFT Died *** SWIFT---At 171 Arlington Av., Brooklyn, Oct. 21, Fred Joel Swift....	24th October 1907
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
New York Times	OBITUARY NOTES [LAURA VAN DER HOEF] Mrs. LAURA ELLEN NEWELL VAN DERHOEF, widow of Wyckoff Van Derhoef, who was one of the victims of the Titanic disaster, died yesterday at her home, 15 Clark Street, Brooklyn. Her husband was Secretary of the Williamsburg Fire Insurance Company in Man...	18th March 1925
New York Times	FELDMAN SIGNS FOR BOUT HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Sept. 4 (AP)---Abe Feldman, Brooklyn heavyweight, and Petri Georgi, Buffalo, were signed today to meeet in a ten-round bout at the Legion Stadium here Sept. 14. Enzo Fiermonte, husband of Mrs. Madeline [sic] F...	5th September 1934
Brooklyn Daily Times	W L GWYN, FORMER BROOKLYN MAIL CLERK, MAY HAVE BEEN LOST Postmaster Edward M. Morgan said yesterday that the Titanic was carrying 3,423 sacks of mail and added: "There are generally about four bags of prints---a postal term applied to all other pieces than letters---to one of letters. A bag ...	17th April 1912
New York Times	HUGE WAVE SWEEPS OCEANIC Captain Thrown from the Bridge and Left Unconscious --- While plowing her way through the worst weather met with on the North Atlantic lane in many months, the White Star liner Oceanic, in last night from Liverpool, was boarded...	29th November 1906
Newark Evening News	TWO TRENTON FAMILIES FEAR FATE OF YOUNG MEN Two prominent young Trentonians aboard the Titanic are Washington A. Roebling, second, and Stephen W. Blackwell, who were returning home from an automobile trip through Europe....	16th April 1912
Standard Union	FUNERAL OF HERO OF LOST TITANIC Sante Reghini, Who Gave His Life for a Woman, Buried from Sister’s Home --- WAITED ON DECK FOR DEATH --- Services for George Nasser, Another Victim, To-morrow --- The funeral of one of the victims of the Tita...	4th May 1912
New York Times	STEAM YACHT ELEANOR SOLD J. J. Hill Is the Purchaser of Mrs. Cardeza's Famous Pleasure Craft --- The rumored purchase of Mrs. James W. Martinez-Cardeza'a steam yacht Eleanor by President J. J. Hill of the Great Northern Railroad has been confirme...	26th June 1900
New York Times	MRS. DOROTHY A. HARDER Mrs. Dorothy A. Harder --- Mrs. Dorothy Annan Harder, wife of George A. Harder, died Wednesday at her residence, 510 Park Avenue. She was the only child of the late Edward Annan Jr. and Maude Earle. Edward Annan of Brooklyn, her grandfa...	3rd December 1926
Newark Star	WHY WAS THE NEWS SUPPRESSED A reporter for The Newark Star managed to get aboard the Carpathia and made his way to the bridge, where he had an interview with Captain Rostrom [sic] as to why the news of the wreck and the condition of the survivors had been withheld. The followin...	19th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette	ASTOR PUT BOY BY WIFE'S SIDE A fine act of heroism by Col. John Jacob Astor was told by George A. Harder, a Brooklyn man, who survived the Titanic disaster. "When Col. Astor had assisted his tearful young wife and her maid into a life boat, he tried to put in a yo...	19th April 1912
New York Times	GEORGE B. GOLDSCHMIDT George B. Goldschmidt, lost in the sinking of the Titanic, was one of the oldest members of the Bar Association, having become a member in 1870. He was born in this city in 1840, admitted to practice in 1882, and was one of the best-known conveyancer...	20th April 1912
	HMS HECATE'S ROLE IN DISCOVERY OF TITANIC WRECK John Bibby I read with interest on this site regarding HMS Hecate's apparent role in the discovery of Titanic in 1977. Actually this is a mistake. I served on board HMS HECATE between 1980...
New York Times	OBITUARY NOTES FRED JOEL SWIFT, a well-known resident of the East New York section of Brooklyn, died in Nyack, N. Y., on Monday night. He was forty-five years old and a native of Herkimer County, N. Y. For a number of years Mr. Swift had been in the rea...	23rd October 1907
	LAST KNOWN PHOTOGRAPH OF CAPTAIN SMITH	11th April 1912
Newark Evening News	PRIEST GIVES AWAY A LIFEBELT OFFERED HIM Special Service of the NEWS WHIPPANY, April 23---More about the heroism of Rev. Thomas R. Byles, of England, who lost his life on the Titanic, was told yesterday by his brother William, of Brooklyn, who was a guest of Father Clifford, ...	23rd April 1912
nydailynews.com	PROFESSOR SAYS TITANIC BROKE INTO TWO BEFORE IT ENTERED WATER A professor at downtown Brooklyn’s City Tech is trying to vindicate survivors of the Titanic whose testimony was discredited after its sinking a century ago. Fifteen eyewitnesses told investigators the mighty ship broke in two before its death plunge into the icy North Atlantic. Politicians in the United States and Great Britain who led disaster probes did not believe them — and sided with the Titanic’s highest-ranking surviving officer, who said it slid into the sea in one piece. “It’s like seeing someone in trouble and being able to help,” New York City College of Technology Prof. Rich Woytowich, 61, said about his high-tech defense of the now-dead witnesses. ...	23rd March 2012
New York Times	FILE WILL OF TITANIC VICTIM Proof of Death of Charles Natsch Furnished by Survivor --- The will of Charles Natsch, who lost his life on the Titanic, was admitted to probate in the Surrogates' Court in Brooklyn, yesterday, after proof of his death had been submitte...	28th June 1912
New York Times	ALARM FROM LOOKOUT IGNORED, SAILOR SAYS Officer on Titanic's Bridge Had Warning of the Iceberg from the Crow's Nest. Three warnings that an iceberg was ahead were transmitted from the crow's nest to the officers on the bridge of the doome...	21st April 1912
Daily Sketch	HOW CAPTAIN SMITH DIED His Last Act was to Save a Child's Life Refused to get into a boat. Of all the wild and irresponsible messages that were sent to this country in the first hours following the sinking of the Titanic the one that caused th...	30th April 1912
	GRAF ZEPPELIN. INTERIORS. CONTROL CAR. The airborn equivalent of an ocean liner's bridge....
Detroit Journal	MRS. JANE QUICK Mrs. Jane Quick, wife of Frederick Quick 383 Brooklyn Avenue, with her two daughters, one aged eight and the other three years, all survivors of the Titanic, also arrived on the same train with Mrs Hamlin. ''Jane''! cried a mans voice as Mrs....	20th April 1912
	INSPECTION TOUR: PRESS GATHER ON THE FANTAIL A female VIP (Mme. leBrun, perhaps?) is given a bridge to fantail inspection tour before members of the press....	May 1935
Voyage	LORD CROMER John P. Eaton Departed Stockton-on Tees, England 14 March, 1912 on her maiden voyage bound for Louisburg, Nova Scotia, in ballast. During her crossing she was badly damaged by ice and after 19 days of a voyage which should have taken no mor...	9th January 2005
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

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