A Look at Titanic Through a Few Mariners’ Artifacts

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The year 2022 marks the 110th anniversary of the sinking ofTitanic1912年4月15日,它也是詹姆斯·卡梅隆(James Cameron)电影的25周年。我想通过强调一些来表示敬意Titanic博物馆收藏中有相关的文物。

Poster advertising James Cameron’s Titanic from 1997. The Mariners’ Museum and Park 2012.0007.000031

Twenty-five years ago, James Cameron debuted his version of theTitanicstory featuring Leonardo Dicaprio and Kate Winslet as the fictional and ill-fated lovers, Jack and Rose. The poster depicts the ship’s bow and the embracing stars; the movie title and film details are featured prominently at the bottom. On the back of the poster is a reverse image that was originally designed to be used with a lightbox. Using the lightbox gives the reverse artwork a more life-like appearance when placed behind it. Printing this type of poster was quite expensive and involved running the initial negative through at normal color intensity. It was then reversed and run back through the presses, printing the back at a reduced color intensity.

Prop lifeboat from “A Night to Remember”. The Mariners’ Museum and Park 1982.0023.000002A

This is a movie prop that was used to replicate passengers getting into the lifeboats in the 1958 movie,难忘的一夜。The movie is based on the book written by Walter Lord in 1955 and chronicles the actual night of the sinking. This model was used to film the lifeboats leavingTitanicas it began to sink, which was staged in a swimming pool! This model lifeboat is made of electrified fiberglass and wood, complete with survivors – mainly female – wearing lifejackets and four oarsmen activated electrically by four separate motors with gear and chain drive. The model is finished in weathered white and natural wood.

A portion of a dresser top with silver railing and a drawer with a silver knob. The Mariners’ Museum 1977.0012.000001A

While on a search and recovery mission for those lost during the sinking, a crew member aboard the cable ship, MacKay Bennett, found this portion of a dresser top at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, now the resting place ofTitanic。该工件的尺寸为6-1/8英寸(高度)x 9-1/4英寸(宽度)x 6英寸(直径),并且据信它来自头等舱的一个客舱。

My Easter Wish for You, greeting card. The Mariners’ Museum MS0140-02-01.05-01
Inside the Easter Card written by Selena Rodgers to Leah Aks. The Mariners’ Museum MS0140-02-01.05-02
Note inside the Easter card. The Mariners’ Museum MS0140-02-01.05-03

Selena Rodgers, a first-class passenger, wrote this note to Leah Aks, a third-class passenger aboardTitanic。两位妇女在她的时间里结盟喀尔巴阡山脉, the ship that came to the rescue of the survivors afloat in one of several lifeboats. Selena tells Leah about the passing of one ofTitanic’s crew members, Mr. Crimmins, in 1956. She also included his obituary from a newspaper. Artifacts and the story of Leah Aks and her son, Frank, are currently on display in the museum.

On April 15, 1912, at 2:20 a.m., the ship that was at one time referred to as “practically unsinkable,” slipped beneath the water and there the ship remained until it was found in 1985.

I believe the poem written by Katherine Lee Bates in 1912 tells the story well in simple prose:

TheTitanic
By Katharine Lee Bates (author of “America, the Beautiful”)

当她从黎明到Gloaming加速时,海上的宫殿,
她骄傲的蝴蝶结的海浪吹低语,应该是什么港口?
That her maiden voyage was tending to a haven hushed and deep,
Where after the shock and the rending she should moor at the wharf of sleep?

Oh, her name shall be tale and token to all the ships that sail,
How her mighty heart was broken by the blow of a crystal flail,
How in majesty still peerless her helpless head she bowed
在光线和音乐中,无所畏惧地陷入了她的紫色裹尸布。
Did gleams and dreams half-heeded, while the days so lightly ran,
在人的灵魂中唤醒上帝从上帝身上播种的荣耀?
为了感动闪亮的Chrism,带有爱情的恩典,
男人把他们变成了英雄主义,但习惯。
o午夜奇怪而庄严,当冰山站在目光上时,
Death on one pallid column, to watch our human ways,
And saw throned Death defeated by a greater lord than he,
不朽的生活,他们从海上打招呼。

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