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Titanic (Steamship)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Autograph of Jack Williams, a mysterious TITANIC crewman

 Item
Identifier: 2020.39.7168
Abstract The alleged autograph of "Jack Williams," a possibly fictional TITANIC crew member, on a cover leaf cut from the book A Night to Remember. A crew member named "Seaman Jack Williams" was cited in sensational news reports about shootings as the last lifeboats were being loaded, and the book A Night to Remember mentions this as an example of how absurd the news coverage was. However, there is no record of a Jack Williams in the crew. It might be an alias, or possibly he was entirely...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1903 - 2004

Commemorative postcard autographed by TITANIC survivor Beatrice Sandstrom

 Item
Identifier: 2020.39.7173
Abstract 4.25x6" commemorative cover postcard from the 1994 United Kingdom TITANIC Artifacts Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, UK, autographed by Beatrice Sandstrom, a TITANIC survivor. Postmarked 4th October 1994. The front of the postcard has the exhibit title and a painting of the TITANIC by Artist Michael Farrier with the text "The Maiden Voyage 1912." It also says "Official Wessex Cover," a commemorative postmarked card intended to recognize the exhibit of objects...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1903 - 2004

Commemorative TITANIC Artifacts Exhibit Envelope Signed by Millvina Dean, 20 April 1991

 Item
Identifier: 2020.39.7175
Abstract A Swedish event cover envelope postmarked April 20, 1991 commemorating the TITANIC Artifacts Exhibition in Stockholm and signed by Millvina Dean. Millvina Dean was the youngest of TITANIC's survivors, just two months old when her family boarded the ship as Third Class passengers. They intended to emigrate from England to Wichita, Kansas. She and her mother and older brother survived, but her father died in the sinking. Millvina's mother took her children back to England after the disaster....
Dates: 20 April 1991

Linda Witherill Collection of Steamship Ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-394
Dates: Majority of material found within 1903 - 2004
Found in: Manuscripts

Linda Witherill Collection of Steamship Ephemera

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: MC-2020-39
Found in: Manuscripts

Photograph of TITANIC signed by Don Smith

 Item
Identifier: 2020.39.7176
Abstract

3.5x5.5" postcard of the TITANIC autographed by TITANIC expert Don Smith

Dates: Majority of material found within 1903 - 2004

Postcard autographed by TITANIC survivor Frank J. Goldsmith

 Item
Identifier: 2020.39.7171
Abstract

Postcard with the autograph of Frank J. Goldsmith, who survived the TITANIC sinking at age 9. His family was emigrating from the UK to the US. His mother Emily Goldsmith also survived the sinking, but his father Frank died. On the card, beneath the signature, he has written "3rd Class Survivor." The image is a painting of TITANIC made by artist E.W. Bearman. The card explains that the painting was presented to the TITANIC Enthusiasts of America in 1969.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1903 - 2004

TITANIC photo autographed by survivor Edwina MacKenzie, 16 April 1982

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Identifier: 2020.39.7177
Abstract A glossy photo of TITANIC autographed on the back by Edwina MacKenzie, a survivor of the disaster. She was travelling to the U.S., where her sister was pregnant and needed help. She travelled in Second Class. After the iceberg collision, Edwina MacKenzie alerted others and helped them prepare to evacuate, watching lifeboat after lifeboat depart. It was only when someone handed her a baby who had become separated from its mother that she agreed to board a lifeboat herself. The message on the...
Dates: 16 April 1982

TITANIC postcard autographed by survivor Bertram V. Dean

 Item
Identifier: 2020.39.7178
Abstract

3.5x5.5" postcard of TITANIC with a message dated May 21, 1912 but autographed much later by survivor Bertram V. Dean

Dates: Majority of material found within 1903 - 2004