Harry Elkins Widener was an American businessman and bibliophile, and a member of the Widener family. His mother built Harvard University's Widener Memorial Library in his memory, after his death on the foundering of the RMS Titanic.
Harry Elkins Widener
Widener's 1908 bookplate
Widener Library at Harvard University, named in his honor
Letter to his friend, Luther S. Livingston: "We... return on April 10th on the maiden voyage of the Titanic..."
The Widener family is an American family from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Portrait of Peter A. B. Widener, a 1902 portrait of Peter Arrell Browne Widener by John Singer Sargent
Lynnewood Hall in 2007
The Miramar mansion