rmstitanic

...the desperation is coming through this document

tedesco57 Sadly, the following telegrams are even more palpable, reading: 'We have struck iceberg and sinking please tell Captain to come' and 'Women and children in boats cannot last much longer'.

Terse and to the point.

Should be Seamen's Institute, not Seaman's. See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3239312588/ for similar picture.

Thanks for catching the spelling error on this one, too! We'll adjust the title in the source data and reload the description to Flickr.

Marvelous photo collection here. Diving into the past is a passion of ours, too. Thank you for sharing these images. If anyone is interested in the RMS Titanic, you should check out photos from our recent mission, Expedition Titanic. We have first-time high definition sonar imaging of the Ship, a map of the entire miles-wide debris field, plus other exclusive footage from the expedition. Images and video live on our website, ExpeditionTitanic.com, with more photos on Flickr and Facebook as well. Much obliged, RMST

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.