Malaria poster in small hotel, Puerto Rico … San Juan (LOC)

Main (Reading Room) of New York Public Library

1913

Chandelier, Greenwood Mortuary Chapel in Greenwood Cemetary, Brooklyn, New York

photos taken from—- The Father Browne SJ Photographic Collection contains the most important collection of Titanic photographs taken during the liner’s voyage from Southampton to Cobh(Queenstown] in  Ireland.  

RMS Titanic was a passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an icebergduring her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. The sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of 1,514 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. She was the largest ship afloat at the time of her maiden voyage. One of three Olympic class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line, she was built between 1909–11 by theHarland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. She carried 2,224 people.

Her passengers included some of the wealthiest people in the world, such as millionnaires John Jacob Astor IV, Benjamin Guggenheim and Isidor Strauss, as well as over a thousand emigrants from Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere seeking a new life in North America. The ship was designed to be the last word in comfort and luxury, with an on-board gymnasium, swimming pool, libraries, high-class restaurants and opulent cabins. She also had a powerful wireless telegraph provided for the convenience of passengers as well as for operational use. Though she had advanced safety features such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors, she lacked enough lifeboats to accommodate all of those aboard. Due to outdated maritime safety regulations, she carried only enough lifeboats for 1,178 people – a third of her total passenger and crew capacity.

After leaving Southampton, England on 10 April 1912, Titanic called at Cherbourg in France and Queenstown, Ireland before heading westwards towards New York. On 14 April 1912, four days into the crossing and about 375 miles south of Newfoundland, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 pm (ship’s time; UTC-3). The glancing collision caused Titanic’s hull plates to buckle inwards in a number of locations on her starboard side and opened five of her sixteen watertight compartments to the sea. Over the next two and a half hours, the ship gradually filled with water and sank.

nyc lighting from the early 1900s.

#1 This chandelier was produced by E. F. Caldwell & Co. for the University Club in New York City at 1 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 by architects McKim, Mead & White. 1899.

#2 This bracket was produced by E. F. Caldwell & Co. for the Joseph H. Hunt residence in New York City at 125 East 80th Street, New York, NY 10075.   1909.

#3 This bracket was produced by E. F. Caldwell & Co. for the John Pierpont Morgan residence in New York City at 33 East 36th Street, New York, NY 10016 by architects McKim, Mead & White.  1905