The bag carried a few of his possessions, including a chef’s toque. Klingelhofer explains that EMG, which also produces “Bodies: The Exhibition,” is the only company with sovereign possession of the Titanic wreck site.īetween 19, EMG undertook seven expeditions to retrieve artifacts from where they first sank in April 1912.Īt the exhibition’s entrance, visitors can spot another new item, a miniature model of a Nautile submersible that three crew members would pilot into the Titanic’s ruins.Ībout 14 years ago, the Nautile recovered a small bag belonging to William Edward Hine, one of the more than 1,500 people who died in the disaster.
When you’re lucky enough to find a suitcase, it helps you understand the person more, what’s important to them.”
He had personality - he had exciting clothing like a polka-dotted scarf. “What do people take with them? It says a lot about their lives,” Klingelhofer suggests. Its leather binding preserved 150 letters, documents and articles of clothing, including a pair of boots that are new to the collection. The personal belongings of the Titanic’s first passengers have survived a journey that began in Southampton, England, and could have ended 2½ miles below the ocean’s surface.Īmong the several artifacts that have been recovered is Allen’s suitcase. “That way, we get a fresh look at the Titanic passengers and crew.” “With the beginning of a new decade, we’re doing a larger overhaul,” says Alex Klingelhofer, executive director of collections for Experiential Media Group, which produces the exhibition. “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition” at Luxor is introducing 108 new artifacts - including 20 that have never been displayed. And those items help to preserve the story of a toolmaker who left his wife, family and home in England to sail for America in search of new work. He died in the sinking of the Titanic and his body was never recovered, but many of his belongings - letters, clothing, a pair of boots - were. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) the unsinkable ship struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic, a 39-year-old passenger named William Henry Allen was one of the more than 2,200 on board. 9, 2020, at Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, at Luxor, in Las Vegas. Alexandra Klingelhofer, executive director for collections, with a ship compass recovered from the Titanic on Thursday, Jan.
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