Mr Harry Elkins Widener

Encyclopedia Titanica

Rare Books Go Down with the Titanic April 15 was the 99th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Harry Elkins Widener, a rare book collector, had been in England purchasing rare books. His return ticket was on the Titanic. His private collection, now in a library at Harvard, includes a first folio of Shakespeare and a Gutenberg Bible, printed between 1450 and 1455.