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1912The Titanic
16 APR 1912 / THE TIMES DISPATCH
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Before it was history,
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21 April 1906 / The Sun
A city changes. The record remains.
Three days after the San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906, New York’s The Sun devoted its front page to the disaster and the fires that followed. The dense columns show how distant readers encountered the catastrophe through reports arriving from a city still in crisis.
16 April 1912 / The Times Dispatch
The morning everything changed.
On April 16, 1912, The Times Dispatch in Richmond reported the sinking of the Titanic across its front page. Its estimates and eyewitness accounts preserve the uncertainty of a story still unfolding. A newspaper records what people knew at that moment, before later histories could put the pieces together.
11 November 1918 / The Washington Times
A front page at the end of a war.
The Washington Times’ final edition of November 11, 1918, carried the armistice terms that ended the fighting in the First World War. The page records the immediate announcement and its conditions. Reading it today returns us to the moment when news of the ceasefire reached the public.
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THE WORLD / 16 APRIL 1912 / LOC REFERENCEA place you love. A person you admire. A date that means everything. A newspaper can connect a world-changing event to a very personal story.
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