1912: THE TITANIC DISASTER: A notable victim

One hundred years ago, the horrible "Titanic disaster" occurred. One of the local victims was Charles G. Roebling. Here's an August article from the Trenton Daily State Gazette. 

1912: TITANIC DISASTER 4 DAYS LATER

I have been watching the "TITANIC" mini series on Cable. It is truly a fascinating look back at the turmoil and struggles the builder and the unions brought to the forefront. The above full page article from the TRENTON TRUE AMERICAN is a natural for historic digital preservation. No scratchy printout of a microfilm reproduction could bring anywhere near the clarity of this 101 year old page. There are many more Titanic-related articles to be digitized and posted; stay tuned.

1912: WASHINGTON A. ROEBLING, TITANIC VICTIM

Included in the huge collection of bound Trenton newspapers in my collection is a number of pages detailing the horrible Titanic disaster. One of the victims of the disaster was a lady who resided in the Bromley section of Hamilton Township. Eventually there will be digitized graphics relating to the disaster posted in the "TITANIC" folder of the Hamilton Library's Local History Collection and also on this website.

1912: THE TITANI DISASTER

Above is a portion of the front page of the Titanic disaster, a week or so after the unsinkable vessel went down. I have laminated this page, and unfortunately, there is no additional pages foundup to this pointbut I am searching.

1912: YOU WILL BE READING A LOT ABOUT THIS CENTENNIAL DISASTER

It is interesting to note that a resident of the Bromley area was among those rescued when the Titanic was torn asunder by an iceberg a century ago. The article above should read, "A Hamilton Woman Survives Sinking of Titanic." The "Headline Edition" front page of the Trenton Times above has been scanned in "gray scale," which gives a pristine copy when compared to the articles on the genealogical web sites which scan in black and white to keep the size of the image down. "Black and white" scans have no shade differences between stark black and snow white." which very effectively removes much of the clarity of an offset photo. It took quite a while to tweak this grayscale front page with articles on the Titanic disaster which happened 100 years ago this Thursday, March 12, 2012. I am looking forward to the PBS miniseries which will air next Saturday.

1912: NEXT MONTH MARKS THE CENTENNIAL OF THE TITANIC DISASTER

Obviously, the Titanic disaster is, and has been a very necessary part of our national history. It is also of interest to us as a local historical incident when it relates to local passengers who were on the doomed giant. Few people know of Mrs. Bertie Pickett of Park Lane in Hamilton's Bromley area as being one of the survivors of the disaster. Future posts will have more on this historic tragedy; stay tuned.

1912: THE "UNSINKABLE" TITANIC

We have all heard countless stories on the Titanic Disaster of April, 1912. The article above lends a very close look at the situation as those involved answered questions to those who investigated the tragedy. Due to the size of the graphic, I had to re-format it and try to bring it into a more computer friendly size.

1923: Bromley Woman Survived the Titanic Disaster

How very interesting that a lady whose home was less than 4 or 5 blocks from my Atlantic Avenue home was one of the survivors of the Titanic disaster of April 1912! One of the very rewarding aspects of historical research is uncovering these gems which few of us know about.
Digitizing these historical articles lends credibility to the slogan on my office door at the Hamilton Library's Local History Collection:

" Indexing local history one page at a time!"