The Countess of Rothes, after her training as a Red Cross nurse, which encouraged her belief that to be useful was to be happy.
The Countess of Rothes, after her training as a Red Cross nurse, which encouraged her belief that to be useful was to be happy.
Thomas Andrews’s former home in south Belfast, from which he left to board the Titanic.
Andrews with his wife, Helen, and their daughter Elizabeth, photographed in 1910, shortly after Elizabeth’s birth. As an adult, she became Northern Ireland’s first female pilot.
A poster advertising the Olympic and Titanic during the publicity blitz for the sister ships in 1911–12.
Many industry experts considered the magnificent first-class Dining Saloon on the rival Lusitania to be superior to the equivalent room on the Titanic.
The Titanic’s was inspired by Elizabeth I’s childhood home and a country house belonging to the dukes of Rutland.
The last remaining White Star vessel: now docked permanently in Belfast, the Nomadic ferried the Thayers and Dorothy Gibson out to the Titanic at Cherbourg.
A “clear-cut chap”: Jack Thayer, aged seventeen, around the time he boarded the Titanic with his parents.
In 1911, Dorothy Gibson appeared twice on the cover of Cosmopolitan and her modeling career had soared thanks to her partnership with Harrison Fisher.
Cabin B-69 on the Olympic. The same style was replicated for C-77 on the Titanic, the room occupied by the Countess of Rothes and her friend, Gladys Cherry. B-Deck rooms had windows, as seen here, while on C-Deck they were replaced with more traditional portholes.
Despite having become one of the most famous rooms of the twentieth century, no photographs of the Titanic’s Grand Staircase afloat are known to have survived. Her sister ship, the Olympic, had an almost identical feature, which was thankfully photographed on many occasions.
Rescue of the Survivors of the Titanic by the Carpathia, painted by Colin Campbell Cooper, an artist who was traveling on the latter when she intercepted the Titanic’s distress calls.
Luxuries Versus Lifeboats — in the aftermath of the disaster, many saw the Titanic as a grand moral lesson. In this poster, the Grim Reaper taunts, “Why all this hue and cry about lifeboats? Have you not your veranda and Parisian cafés, palm-garden, squash-court, gymnasium, swimming-pool, Turkish baths, and à la carte restaurant?”
All that remains of the Titanic’s Grand Staircase. The chasm behind the chandelier is where the staircase once stood and shattered apart during the sinking.
After the 2009 fire, the derelict remains of Lady Rothes’ favorite home, Leslie House.