1912 Collection (page 11)

RMS Titanic - CS Mackay-Bennett cable-laying ship
RMS Titanic - sepia press photograph of the CS Mackay-Bennett transatlantic cable-laying and cable repair ship which recovered most of the bodies of the victims of the Titanic sinking

RMS Titanic - The Shipbuilders, foldout page
RMS Titanic - red bound volume of The Shipbuilders, showing foldout page with deck layouts. Date: 1911-1912

RMS Olympic and Titanic - The Shipbuilders volume
RMS Olympic and Titanic - red bound volume of The Shipbuilders, souvenir number, showing colour plate of the Olympic. Date: 1911-1912

RMS Titanic - letter to Carl Asplund, victim
RMS Titanic - Lillian Asplund Collection - a letter written in Swedish, dated Worcester, 28 February 1912, to Carl Asplund. I have received your letter today

RMS Titanic - second class passenger John Gill, victim
RMS Titanic - Second Class passenger John Gill (1888-1912), letter dated 22 November 1912 from the White Star Line steamship department to Mrs Sarah Gill of Clevedon, Somerset

RMS Titanic - Mansion House Relief Fund
RMS Titanic - Second Class passenger and victim Samuel Herman, letter from the Mansion House Relief Fund regarding assistance to Mr Herman's family, together with a newspaper cutting. Date: 1912

RMS Titanic - letter from Carl Zeidler of Toronto, Canada
RMS Titanic - letter dated 6 May 1912 relating to the loss of a cable on the Titanic, from Carl Zeidler, an explorer in Toronto, to Messrs Houston Bros, Vicksburg, Missouri, USA. Date: 1912

RMS Titanic - postcard, Wallace Hartley, Captain Smith
RMS Titanic - unusual jumbo size postcard by A. Stott of Barnoldswick, The Wreck of the Titanic, with portraits of Wallace Hartley (violinist and bandleader) and Captain Edward Smith

RMS Titanic - three certificates of discharge, Wormald
RMS Titanic - F H Wormald (1866-1912), Titanic first class saloon steward who lost his life at the age of 45 when the ship sank

RMS Titanic - The Journal of Commerce
RMS Titanic - hardbound report into the Titanic enquiry (British), printed by the Journal of Commerce in 1912. Date: 1912

RMS Titanic - The Star newspaper, London, front page, Monday 15 April 1912, reporting on the disaster

RMS Titanic - music cover, hymn performed on board the ship
RMS Titanic - music cover, in French, hymn performed on board the ship, night of 14-15 April 1912

RMS Titanic - RMS Virginian Christmas card
RMS Titanic - unusual RMS Virginian Christmas card for December 1912. The Virginian was one of the vessels that took Titanic's distress calls

RMS Titanic - The Loss of the Titanic, by Lawrence Beesley
RMS Titanic - book cover, The Loss of the Titanic, by Lawrence Beesley, 1912 first edition, signed N. Partner, 7 August 1912

RMS Titanic and RMS Carpathia
RMS Titanic (top and bottom), and RMS Carpathia (middle). The Carpathia rescued 706 passengers from the sinking Titanic

Young men returning home in the snow with a rabbit for Christmas Dinner, by Frank Dadd, 1912

Marie Adelaide
Portrait of Marie-Adelaide. She reigned as Grand Duchess of Luxembourg from 1912 until her abdication in 1919. She was the first Grand Duchess regnant of Luxembourg

How mines were ventilated
How the mines were ventilated and drainer. One of the reasons for the mine strike of 1912 was the poor maintenance of ventilation and draining of the mines

The Coal crisis
The national coal strike of 1912 was the first national strike by coal miners in the United Kingdom. Its main goal was securing a minimum wage

Abor exploratory expeditions
Photographs from the Abor Expedition. In 1911??12 as part of the Abor Expedition, the Survey of India conducted widespread surveying of the tributaries of the Brahmaputra. Morshead was in a team

St John's Harbour, N. B
A birds eye view of the 1912 plans for the new harbour at St Johns in Canada. Seen are all the measurements of the plans. Date: 1912

Emperor of China
Xuantong, Emperor of China (1906 -1967) Emperor of China as the eleventh and final Emperor of the Qing dynasty, China's last imperial dynasty

Reference books seen here. Some books of reference are; The post office London directory of 1912, who's who 1912, Englishman's yearbook 1912

German elections 1912
Illustration showing how inside the Reichstag is divided and how the German parities were decided at the dissolution. The above view shows the semi-circular floor of the House

Music cover, Kind Regards! Intermezzo by Synney Baynes Date: 1912

Music cover, Nights of Gladness Valse by Charles Ancliffe Date: 1912

Music cover, The Dancing Mistress Valse, on melodies by Lionel Monckton, arranged by H M Higgs Date: 1912

Melbourne scoreboard showing England's 589 total
Melbourne scoreboard showing England's record total of 589, tour of Australia Date: 1912

England cricket touring team to Australia Date: 1912

Hobbs and Rhodes, Australian cricketers
Cricketers Hobbs and Rhodes who established a first wicket Test record of 323 tour of Australia Date: 1912

Advert, Ipswich Hippodrome, St Nicholas Street, offering the cream of variety talent Date: 1912

Charles Dickens, places of birth, baptism, marriage, burial
Charles Dickens, places of birth, baptism, marriage and burial Date: 1912

Skerikulla
A portrait etching of a Skeri girl with a beaming smile, wearing a dotted headscarf tied under the chin. Date: 1912

The Blue Hat - Mrs. J. M. Hone
A portrait oil painting of Mrs. J. M. Hone, modelling in an angler's outfit, and a blue hat, with black feathers. Date: circa 1912

Old St. James, Melbourne
This etching shows a gentleman with his dog, stood on a pathway outside St. James old Cathedral, Melbourne. Date: 1912

Louis Esson
A portrait oil painting of Scottish born, Australian poet and playwright, Thomas Louis Buvelot Esson, who wrote plays such as The Time is Not Yet Ripe (1912) and The Drovers (1922)

Salvation Army Women's Hostel Dundee Circa 1912
Salvation, Army, Women's, Hostel, Dundee, circa, 1912, Ward, Road, , 13548673

St Nicholas Homes, Pyrford
Stoop Ward at the Waifs and Strays Society's St Nicholas Homes for physically disabled children at Pyrford, Surrey. The site later became St Nicholas Orthopaedic Hospital then the Rowley Bristow

Titanic pre-sinking silk postcard
This is a silk postcard probably made by Stevens. These were published before the sinking and offered for sale onboad. Date: circa 1912

Titanic sinking Memorial Card with luminous cross
The dramatic image of the sinking ship surrounded by lifeboats is entitled NEARER MY GOD TO THEE - a reference to the tune that the ship's band was often said to have played as the vessel sank

Jack Johnson Black American Boxer in a fighting pose
Johnson was the first black American heavyweight boxing champion. He died in a car crash in 1946. Date: circa 1912

Netley Abbey, Hampshire Date: 1912

The Woolworth Building, 233 Broadway, New York, USA
The Woolworth Building, 233 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, USA. Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and constructed between 1910 and 1912 - an early skyscraper

Poster, Renault Cars Date: 1912

Elegant Edwardian reception room with polished wooden table, chaise longue, large family photographic portrait over the mantelpiece and neat shelves of leather-bound volumes. Date: 1912

The Giant Machnow at The London Hippodrome
Fedor Machnow (said to be 9 ft 8 ins high in 1905) was born in 1876 near Viciebsk, then part of the Russian Empire (now in Belarus). He is seen here outside the London Hippodrome

The Snowman family
Heavily embossed Christmas postcard depicting a rather grumpy family of snowmen Date: 1912

A Poor old Lancashire Spinner on Strike
A humourous postcard from the Lancashire Cotton Towns when organised strikes were beginning to take hold around 1910 Date: circa 1912

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