Belfast, Ireland on the 2nd of December, 1912.
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November 1912
November 1912: Firemen stand outside the fire station in Wagga Wagga in regional New South Wales, Australia. The building was constructed around 1903.
New York’s Easter Parade
New York City has hosted an Easter parade on Fifth Avenue since the 19th century. Taking place on Easter Sunday, for decades it was one of the most significant cultural events of the year.
Here are some images of the parade from the late 19th and early 20th centuries:
On this day…
The New York Times reports on Serbian massacres of Albanian citizens in the First Balkan War. 31st December, 1912.
Halloween – 1912
On this day: the release of Saved from the Titanic
Saved from the Titanic, a short film about the sinking of the RMS Titanic, was released on the 14th of May, 1912.
Created immediately after the ship sank a month earlier, the film is notable for starring silent film actress Dorothy Gibson, who had actually been on the Titanic when the disaster occurred.
In the film, Gibson wore the same clothes she’d been wearing when she’d been rescued from the ship. She was twenty-two at the time (she would have a birthday three days after the movie’s release), and suffered a breakdown afterwards. She never acted on the screen again.
Saved from the Titanic is considered a lost film, as no copies are known to have survived.
On this day: Titanic survivors arrive in New York
This photograph is of the Snyders disembarking from the ship Carpathia, which rescued them after the sinking of the Titanic. It was the 18th of April, 1912. The ship docked at 9:30pm, and about 40,000 people were waiting to greet the survivors.