News

Elmira had connections to the sinking of the Titanic. According to an earlier newspaper article, “Names of Hull Botsford of this city, Arthur Ford, John Bradley Cummings and S. C. Goldenberg, all of ...
A lettercard penned by one of the Titanic's most well-known survivors from onboard the ship, days before it sank, has sold ...
A letter written by one of the most well-known Titanic survivors sold for about $399,000 at auction over the weekend.
In the lettercard, dated April 10, 1912, first-class passenger Archibald Gracie wrote of the ill-fated steamship.
The ship was the largest afloat and the most glorious. Her name: Titanic. While the fate of the luxury liner in April 1912 is ...
Archibald Gracie wrote of the ill-fated steamship: "It is a fine ship but I shall await my journeys end before I pass ...
Days before the Titanic struck an iceberg, a first-class passenger, Col. Archibald Gracie, described the vessel in a letter written while on board: "It is a fine ship but I shall await my journey's ...
This story was originally published in 2012 on the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. On a clear ... Church," the Buffalo Express newspaper raved, when the church was opened in ...
A poignant relic from the Titanic disaster ... Though he perished in the sinking, his body was recovered, and among his personal effects was a woman’s pocket watch—believed to have been ...
The last word from the Titanic was that she was sinking. Then the sparking became fainter. The call was dying to nothing. The Virginian's operator labored over a blur of signals. It was hopeless.
Albert Akeny "A.A." Stewart was a salesman in Cincinnati and brought three whales to the city. He later died on the Titanic.