After the Titanic sunk with her husband John Jacob Astor IV aboard, Madeline Talmage Astor became a rich widow who often visited Palm Beach ...

Birnbaum had booked passage with another company, but due to the coal strike in England, his passage was transferred to the ...

After an extended honeymoon in Europe and Egypt, they boarded the Titanic on April 10 in Cherbourg, France. Before his 1912 death, Astor, who owned New York’s Waldorf Astoria and St. Regis as ...

The postcard says: "Dear Father and Mother, I've already sent you postcards from Southampton and from Cherbourg in France ... The launch of Titanic in April 1912 was the crowning achievement ...