In addition to being very close to each other, John Jacob Astor IV was exceptionally close to him as well. The wealthy and powerful Astor has amassed his wealth through various businesses including ...
John Jacob Astor IV was one of the wealthiest people in the world when he perished in the Titanic sinking. His life was marked by amazing innovations and wealth, but scandal as well. Astor's wife ...
A postcard written by a first-class passenger on the Titanic will go up for auction later this month. Richard William Smith, ...
John Jacob Astor IV went down with the Titanic, but his Stanford White-designed estate in Rhinebeck, New York survives him. Stanford White's great-grandson Sam White has fully restored the place.
The auction for John Jacob Astor IV's 14-carat gold Waltham pocket watch was sold to an American buyer. The watch, engraved with the initials JJA, was found with Astor's body when it was recovered ...
A postcard and a pocket watches are among the top lots in a sale of Titanic memorabilia that is super to excite history buffs ...
Before the Titanic sank, the windows were opened, probably to load lifeboats. Millionaire John Jacob Astor IV put his 18-year-old wife into lifeboat 4 through a promenade window on the other side ...
Inside, you'll find a collection of leather-bound Kindles, each loaded with book titles from the hotel's founder John Jacob Astor IV's original collection installed in 1904, such as "The ...
He was the son of John Jacob Astor IV, millionaire and inventor, and his first wife, Ava Lowle Willing, a famously beautiful and spoiled heiress from Philadelphia. Vincent endured a difficult ...
The pocket watch of the richest man on the Titanic – recovered when his body was fished out of the Atlantic seven days after ...
They included businessmen like John Jacob Astor IV and Benjamin Guggenheim, as well as members of the upper classes and even sportsmen. Many of the second class passengers were tourists ...
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