Over 300 people aboard the Titanic were travelling first class, which granted them spacious private suites such as the ones shown here, and access to other elegant amenities, including a special dining area, promenade, Turkish bath, and gymnasium. Well known passengers included real estate tycoon John Jacob Astor IV and his new wife Madeleine; Isidor Straus, the owner of Macy’s, and his wife Ida; Benjamin Guggenheim, heir to a mining fortune; the influential English journalist William Thomas Stead; and Dorothy Gibson, an American singer and silent film actress. The Titanic carried an inadequate number of lifeboats (20 instead of the planned 64), so as the disaster unfolded, its policy of saving “women and children first” meant that almost all the well to do wives and their sons and daughters were rescued. Among the men in first class, two-thirds died, including Astor, Straus, Guggenheim, and Stead.