Resorts at Sea - March 2013

Spent part of the week retrieving items from storage. It really made me want to drop a lit match and close the door behind me. But I grabbed some (I hope) relevant books and articles for this project. Among one of the boxes I found an ad I printed off microfilm many moons ago ...

 

It's from the March 16, 1912 edition of The New York Times, and it's a little creepy seeing the return trips listed. I should go back and see how late these ads were being run, especially when multiple special editions were being printed with disaster updates.

 

In addition to the items in storage, I visited a university library and slightly ransacked their stacks, obtaining some interesting articles. More pointed research to come ...