Scrapbook, ca. 1915.

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Scrapbook, ca. 1915.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58760366

Scrapbook, ca. 1915, complied by Dwight C. Harris containing newspaper and magazine clippings, illustrations, political cartoons, and correspondence pertaining to the sinking of the steamship Lusitania and his survival of the historic disaster. Included is a 13 page letter from Harris in Dublin to his mother describing the event and his ordeal as a passenger.

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New-York Historical Society

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Harris, Dwight C.

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New York City theatrical manager and survivor of the Lusitania. From the description of Scrapbook, ca. 1915. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58760366 ...

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, ...