Taking Advantage of the Disaster
It didn’t take long after news of the Titanic’s sinking reached the public that people began looking for methods to profit from the catastrophe. A woman is selling a print of the now-famous ship in this photo. Everything from postcards to miniatures to newspapers was on sale.
Over the years, the worth of all of those things has only climbed. It would be worth a fortune if somebody still had the newspaper from the day the Titanic sank in 1912.