**Margaret Brown, survivor**between 1890 and 1920

What the record says

The photograph, the source, and the unknowns

The survivor everyone can name, hung among people nobody can. The Library dates this portrait only to a thirty-year span, so the plaque does not pretend to a year.

Archive caption: Margaret "Molly" Brown, survivor
Creator: Bain News Service
Date: 1912
Credit: Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Rights: LoC rights advisory: 'No known restrictions on publication.' George Grantham Bain Collection. · Public Domain Mark 1.0
Source record: Open the institution or repository record

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Bain News Service. “Margaret Brown, survivor.” 1912. Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection. https://www.loc.gov/item/92521036/. Viewed via Nostalgia Museum artifact 809, reviewed 22 August 2026. https://getnostalgia.ai/museum/artifact/JR5an0x4yGHmer_j/809

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