The exhibition is composed of 200 sequenced images produced by the world-renowned photographer and represents a continuation of an earlier project, Notations in Passing, which was published in 1974 and incorporated a sequence of images that began in 1962. This project, organized and circulated by the Addison Gallery of American Art, continues from 1974 to the present, encompassing work that has been generated by Lyons over the past 36 years.

The presentation of Riding 1st Class on the Titanic! has been supported in part from the Friends of the Library & Gallery and by an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts.