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This is the last photograph ever taken of the Titanic:
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And this is where that picture was taken looks like today:
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This was the first class menu aboard the Titanic the day it sank:
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And this was the third class menu the day the Titanic sank:
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Okay, while we’re at it, here’s what a second class menu looked like:
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This is what the great promenade deck of the Titanic looked like in 1912:
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And here’s what the deck looks like today:
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Here’s another view of the deck:
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This is Charlotte and Marjorie Collyer, a mother and daughter who survived the wreck of the Titanic in 1912:
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This is what the first class lounge on the Titanic looked like:
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And here’s what the first class dining room looked like:
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And this is what the third-class dining room of the Titanic’s sister ship, the Olympic, looked like:
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And this, in all its 1912 glory, is what a first-class suite looked like on the ship:
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This is what a second class room looked like:
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And this is what a third class bedroom looked like:
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The Titanic had a full gym on board, complete with a rowing machine. This is what it looked like:
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There was also a pool in the middle deck of the ship:
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While there are no pictures of the Titanic’s grand staircase from before it sank, this is what the grand staircase on the Titanic’s sister ship, the Olympic, looked like:
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And this is what the grand staircase of the Titanic looked like as recent as 2001:
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Here they are together, for easy comparison:
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Upon the discovery of the wreck in 1985, an array of pristinely lined-up dishes were found neatly sitting together on the ocean floor.
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Some of the dishes were actually recovered and put on display:
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Some money was also recovered from the wreck:
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Even part of the hull of the Titanic was salvaged from the wreckage in 1998. It’s currently on display in Las Vegas:
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Other remnants of the Titanic still remain on the ocean floor – including shoes that belonged to its victims:
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This is what one of the deck chairs aboard the Titanic looked like. Collector Chris Lowe paid $30,000 for it:
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This is the violin Wallace Hartley, bandleader on the Titanic, played as the ship sank:
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And these are the members of the band that played on the Titanic as the ship was sinking:
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This unassuming white dot is the iceberg that sunk the Titanic:
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Here’s a closer look:
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This right here is what one of the Titanic‘s lifeboats looked like before the passengers were rescued:
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And this is a picture of a lifeboat filled with Titanic survivors being rescued and brought aboard the Carpathia following the sinking of the ship:
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And here are a handful of lifeboats attached to the Carpathia after being rescued:
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Here’s another shot of some lifeboats back in New York:
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This is a photo of some of the Titanic’s surviving crew members days after the ship sank:
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The propellers on the back of the Titanic were absolutely gigantic:
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Here’s what one of those propellers looks like today:
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Here’s what the list of first-class passengers looked like:
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Here’s a lost property claim first-class passenger Molly Brown made after the ship sunk:
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This is what the Titanic looked like while it was under construction:
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And this is what one of the Titanic’s smokestacks looked like before being put on the ship. Note the tiny little man in the corner:
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This is how big the Titanic is compared to a modern day cruise ship:
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This is an example of what one of the life vests worn by a Titanic survivor looked like:
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This is a gold watch that belonged to a passenger on the Titanic. It stopped as the ship sank:
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And, finally this is an unopened bottle of champagne recovered from the wreck site:
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