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RMS Titanic continues to capture our imagination some 90 years after her untimely demise. This online presentation reproduces selected images from one of several "instant" books published in Philadelphia and Chicago within a few months of the disaster. Story of the Wreck of the Titanic, edited by Marshall Everett, mixes fact and fiction, challenging the reader to discern lifeboats of truth on a sea of journalistic excess. It also contains some powerful editorial writing, eloquent sermonizing by various religious leaders, and selected excerpts from testimony given at the U.S. Senate inquiry into the disaster. Despite its flaws, it is a reasonably accurate reflection of how the disaster was perceived at the time. The editorial cartoons are particularly effective in displaying the public mood.--Jay White


Image Album
Selected images from Marshall Everett’s Story of the Wreck of the Titanic (1912)

Editorial Cartoons
Fifteen editorial cartoons published in American newspapers after the Titanic sinking (from Everett)

Other Instant Disaster Books
The Titanic books were modeled after other books sold door-to-door around the turn of the century.

The complete texts of two Titanic instant books by Logan Marshall
and Jay Henry Mowbray are accessible online. Click on the images (below left) to see them.
Click on the red covered Russell edition to see an example of how the sale
of one instant book was used to raise money for victims of the disaster.
Logan Marshall
Jay Henry Mowbray
Thomas H. Russell
Henry Fredricks
Updates (click on the Question marks for more info)
APRIL 2002 informal survey of items for sale on eBay shows continuing demand for the Titanic instant books.
Through the generosity of Mr. Bob Taylor of Fort Smith, Arkansas, a publisher's flyer used to solicit agents for the Logan Marshall book has been added to the site.
Another survey of trading activity in Titanic instant books on eBay, this time for a 2-week period in April 2000, giving prices realized and location of sellers.
A page of links used in the preparation of my article published in the Spring 1999 issue of Acadiensis, a regional history journal based at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.
A survey of trading activity in Titanic instant books on eBay in the fall of 1999, including prices realized and location of seller.

Many people asked me about the current values of these books. My initial response wasn't very helpful, so later I decided to conduct an informal survey of trading activity on eBay (see above).

Mary DeMille Dann

Marshall Everett's Story of the Wreck of the Titanic was given to my grandmother, Mary DeMille Dann of Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada on her 17th birthday, June 20th, 1912--two months after the disaster.

Mary DeMille Dann

Further reading

Encyclopedia Titanica

Jim Sadur's Titanic page

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