"STEAMER TITANIC" Largest and most luxurious in the World. Launched at Belfast Ireland, May 1911. Length 882 ft. 6 inches. Displacement 66,000 tons. On her maiden trip struck a mammoth iceberg on Sunday, April 14th at 10.25 P.M. 41° 49 minutes, north latitude - 50° 14 minutes, west longitude. The worst disaster known in Marine History. Sunk at 2.20 A.M. April 15 1912, with a loss of over 1300 lives. – Works

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"STEAMER TITANIC" Largest and most luxurious in the World. Launched at Belfast Ireland, May 1911. Length 882 ft. 6 inches. Displacement 66,000 tons. On her maiden trip struck a mammoth iceberg on Sunday, April 14th at 10.25 P.M. 41° 49 minutes, north latitude - 50° 14 minutes, west longitude. The worst disaster known in Marine History. Sunk at 2.20 A.M. April 15 1912, with a loss of over 1300 lives.

Publisher: Tichnor Bros., Inc., Boston, Mass. (1908–1987)

British

after 1912

Medium/Technique Lithograph on card stock.

Dimensions Horizontal: 8.9 x 14 cm (3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive—Gift of Leonard A. Lauder

Accession Number2015.5618

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPostcards

DescriptionBack: divided. Mint.
TICHNOR BROTHERS INC. BOSTON, MASS. LOS ANGELES, CAL.

ProvenanceBetween 1950 and 2015, acquired by Leonard A. Lauder, New York, from various postcard dealers in Europe and the United States; 2015, gift of Leonard A. Lauder to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 24, 2015)