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:
The New York Times reports on Serbian massacres of Albanian citizens in the First Balkan War. 31st December, 1912.
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.
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.
Shipbuilders gather underneath one of the Titanic’s propellers in 1912. The RMS Titanic began her first and only voyage on the 10th of April the same year.
Albert Berry successfully landed a parachute jump from an aeroplane on the 1st of March, 1912. The jump took place in Missouri, and Berry landed at Jefferson Barracks.
Though it was claimed this was the first successful jump of its kind, Grant Morton is said to have successfully executed a jump in California in 1911.
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