Last Titanic Survivor Passes Away

Millvina Dean, the last survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic, died Sunday in Southampton, England. The 97-year-old Dean was just a few months old when the steamship hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912. Dean's brother and mother survived the disaster, but her father did not. You can read more about Dean and the Titanic tragedy in the Wall Street Journal.

Although there are no longer any remaining survivors of the Titanic, its history is captured in a number of digitized materials, many of which are found in the Library of Congress' collections:

• American Treasures of the Library of Congress: The Titanic Disaster Features a digitization of the New York Herald's April 15, 1912, front page announcing the sinking of the Titanic steamship.
• Titanic Treasure Trove 1998 article describing items in the LOC collection related to the sinking of RMS Titanic.
• LOC Prints and Photographs Enter "titanic" in the search box to find images from the LOC collections.
• Final Report on the Senate Inquiry into the Titanic Disaster The LOC website links to this Senate report, which is available via the Titanic Inquiry Project.
  

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