rmscarpathia

CAPTAIN A. H. ROSTROM Commander of the Carpathia, which rescued the survivors of the Titanic from the life-boats in the open sea and brought them to New York. After the Senatorial Investigating Committee had examined Captain Rostrom, at which time this specially posed photograph was taken, Senator William Alden Smith, chairman of the committee, said of Captain Rostrom: "His conduct of the rescue shows that he is not only an efficient seaman, but one of nature's noblemen."} en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Henry_Rostron

yes and he sailed in dangerous weather to save lives. without him this drama would have been even worse..

This photograph is part of the Indicommons.org post April 15, 1912: The Titanic.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called PERSONAL BEST - Preserving Meaningful Moments, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Given that this photo is also from the LOC and from Bain, it seems likely that it's from the same series. Also, the captain's name is Rostron, not Rostrom.

Thanks for the tip! We’ll need to correct the Captain's name in the source data so that we can keep the information we show here in Flickr and in our own catalog ( http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html) in sync.

is this a real picture?... to me the boat and the people on it look somehow hand made...

Yes its real. You have to remember that the Carpathia was In very frigid waters. The captain of of the Carpathia didn't have any heating systems on because the steam was needed to get to the Titanic. You are looking at a condensation blur. The film was glass. Then there is the breath of the person taking to picture. You can see the breath on the top of the picture. Looks like fog.

If you enlarge it, it actually looks like someone sketched in features on some of the faces and outlined other parts. It also looks like their is a fingerprint on the image, center, bottom

Looks like someone retouch the picture using a pen or something over vanished parts drawing the shadows.

Looks retouched to me too. No big deal. It porbably had to be printed in a newspaper or magazine with a photo printing process without today's definition - so they needed to outline the important parts.