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Articles, Stories and Pictures (140)
Death Closes Career of Lady Duff Gordon
Modiste Who "Dressed the Women of Three Generations"Once Had Shop in New YorkLONDON, April 21. - Lady Duff Gordon, for many years world celebrated as an arbiter of fashion, and a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, died today i...The Day I Met a Titanic Survivor
Liner enthusiast recounts his 1968 meeting with Renee Harris...
Dorothy Gibson in The Lucky Holdup
Added 18th December 2018Only surviving film of famed Titanic actress...
Titanic Strikes the Iceberg
Artist's impression of the Titanic's collision with an iceberg....
The watch that ends the night: Voices from the Titanic
Allan Wolf lyricizes the Titanic in a fact-based, poignant evocation of the 100 year old tragedy...
Dorothy Gibson in 'Hands Across the Sea'
A scene from "Hands Across the Sea," produced by Éclair-America, the company’s debut film and Dorothy Gibson’s first starring role. She actually took several parts in this movie, which was an historical tableau enactin...
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...
Star Turn: The Pictures and Passions of Dorothy Gibson
The tilted deck beneath the young woman’s feet told her the ship was sinking. Leaning against the rail, she pulled her sweater closer about her as she stared into a pitch-black, frigid sky dotted with stars. The ocean below was as ...
My Greatest Hour: Saved from the Titanic
Added 19th October 2021Lady Duff Gordon's last account of the Titanic disaster...
Noted Stylist Dies in London
Lady Duff Gordon Designed Fashions for Royalty...From myth to legend: How Margaret became Molly
Added 3rd August 2021The musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown made Margaret Brown more famous than she was in real life, but the fiction it perpetuated began much earlier. Randy Bryan Bigham explores the beginning of the Molly Brown myth....
Edith Russell in 1974 holding her lucky pig
Added 23rd May 2021Titanic survivor Edith Rosenbaum Russell, aged 95, in late 1974, a few months before her death, holding the musical toy pig she carried with her into Lifeboat No. 11. ...
A Matter of Course
Titanic's Plucky Countess...
A Night to Forget : Renée Harris and the Titanic Disaster
Added 16th June 2019New book focuses on the forgotten career of Mrs. Henry B. Harris...
Edith Russell's Paris brothel
How a Titanic survivor nearly bought a house of ill-repute!...Madame Lucile: A Life in Style
Her creativity helped to frame an era. Her personality gilded it. This is the story of the woman and her world....
John Jacob and Madeleine Astor in Newport
News photo of John Jacob and Madeleine Astor in Newport, taken soon after their marriage ...
John Jacob and Madeleine Astor on their honeymoon
John Jacob and Madeleine Astor show leaving a Manhattan apartment building shortly before leaving New York on their honeymoon, photograph dated 2 August 1912....
TITANIC SURVIVOR SUICIDE
Saved from the Titanic but acted peculiarly...Edith L. Rosenbaum's Motor Accident in 1911
Press reports concerning a motor accident Edith Rosenbaum experienced in 1911...Sealed Orders
A Titanic survivor's classic tale of love and fate...
Molly Brown and Captain Rostron
Margaret (Molly) Brown presenting a loving cup to Captain Arthur Rostron...
John Jacob Astor walking his dog
John Jacob Astor walking his Airedale, Kitty, on Fifth Avenue...
Titanic Lifeboats Approach the Carpathia
Painting by Colin Campbell Cooper...
Titanic arrives at Cherbourg.
The Titanic ablaze with lights heading out of Cherbourg harbour on 10 Apri...
Edith Russell, her lucky toy pig and her Titanic dress
Titanic survivor Edith Russell pictured with her Titanic dress and her lucky pig...
Titanic arrives at Queenstown
113 additional passengers embark.Seven disembark and one crew member deserts....
Life's Decor: A Biography of Helen Churchill Candee
A woman of extraordinary vision, talent and resolve...
Dorothy Gibson 1912 Publicity Portrait
Added 27th December 2018Publicity photo of Dorothy Gibson...
Children of the Titanic and The Titanic Sticker Book
Randy Bryan Bigham reviews two new children’s titles that are both informative and entertaining...
Starboard at Midnight, the story of survivors Karl Behr and Helen Newsom
Love at the helm: New Titanic title blends romance and history....
Dorothy Gibson (1)
Dorothy Gibson in a publicity picture at the time of the release of her film, "Miss Masquerader."...
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Biographies (7)
Marie Grice Young
1st Class Passenger
Edwina Celia Troutt
2nd Class Passenger
Henry Burkhardt Harris
1st Class Passenger
Irene Harris
1st Class Passenger
Edith Louise Rosenbaum
1st Class Passenger
Lucy Christiana, Lady Duff Gordon
1st Class Passenger
Dorothy Winifred Gibson
1st Class Passenger
