Woman's Titanic Memorial Association records, 1912-1931.

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Woman's Titanic Memorial Association records, 1912-1931.

1912-1931

https://lccn.loc.gov/mm81046268

Records pertaining to the financing and erecting of the memorial to the victims of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. Includes correspondence relating to the work of the sculptor, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.

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Titanic (Steamship)

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The RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. Of the 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. It was the largest ship afloat at the time it entered service....

Woman's Titanic Memorial Association

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Headquartered in Washington, D.C. From the description of Records of the Woman's Titanic Memorial Association, 1912-1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132005 ...

Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 1875-1942

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Sculptor, art patron, philanthropist. Founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Whitney was born in 1875 to Cornelius Vanderbilt, II. In 1896, married Harry Payne Whitney, son of William C. Whitney, secretary of the Navy, 1885-1889. She studied sculpture under Henry Anderson, James Fraser and Andrew O'Connor. In 1907, she opened a studio in Greenwich Village's MacDougal Alley. She was active in WW I charities, and sponsored the opening of the American Ambulance Fiel...