(4.17) For about two years the John Hay Library has been running a series called ‘Focus on Special Collections’. These sessions highlight an individual item or specific topic and staff from the Hay talk about the items.
This month’s topic is the 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. At the John Hay Library several news accounts of the disaster will be put on display, including articles from the 1912 Providence Journal. Additional items related to the ship (sheet music, poetry and plays) will also be on display. RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic on April 15th, 1912 after colliding with an iceberg; over 1500 people perished.
(Image courtesy of the John Hay Library, Brown University)
Noon to 1pm, Tuesday, April 17, the Lownes Room, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect Street, 401.863.3723