Gilbert Fraser papers

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Gilbert Fraser papers

1911-1919

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1238

This collection consists of the diaries, clippings, theatre programs, financial records, and correspondence of Gilbert Fraser (1848-1924), British Consul General in Baltimore from 1913 to 1919. Subjects include the sinking of the "Lusitania", the shooting of J. Pierpont Morgan, spy trials, the "Deutschland" submarine, the Vagabond Theatre, and his daily life as a British consul in America.

0.75 linear feet

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Lusitania (Steamship)

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The Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk on May 7, 1915 by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland; 1,198 passengers and crew died. The Cunard Line launched Lusitania in 1906. When RMS Lusitania left New York for Britain on May 1, 1915, German submarine warfare was intensifying in the Atlantic. On the afternoon of May 7, a German U-boat torpedoed Lusitania inside the declared war zone. A second, unexplained, internal explosion, probably that of munitions she was carrying, ...

Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913

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Collector. From the description of John Pierpont Morgan collection of signers of the Declaration of Independence, 1761-1803. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79448959 Financier, industrial organizer, and art collector. Born in 1837 in Hartford, John Pierpont Morgan was educated in the U.S. and Europe before embarking on a career as a banker. From his first position as an unsalaried clerk at the New York banking firm of Duncan, Sherman & Company, Morgan went on to become a ...

Vagabond Theater (Baltimore, Md.)

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Deutschland (Submarine)

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