Titanic artifacts on display at CherryVale; won’t see Rockford connection
May 27th, 2009 at 04:54pm Georgette Braun
A mobile museum — Titanic: Treasures from the Deep — features authentic artifacts recovered from the Titanic on the ocean floor and the items will be on display for touring for free Friday through Sunday at CherryVale Mall, Cherry Valley.
You’ll see a perfume vial, cufflinks, stick pin, fountain pen and money, and learn about the personal stories as told through those treasures.
What you won’t see is Rockford’s connection to the Titanic. According to this April 26, 1912, story in the Rockford Morning Star, a predecessor to the Rockford Register Star, Dagmar Bryhl survived the sinking, though her brother and sweetheart did not. They were on their way from Sweden to stay with her uncle, Oscar Lustig, in Rockford.
According to other accounts, she was booked on the Adriatic, which arrived at Liverpool on May 12, returned to Sweden and later married. She died in 1969.
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1. hokumboy | May 28th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
I missed the Milwaukee exhibition so this mini-expo will have to do.
Hopefully they’ll have the squished penny machine.
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