Photographs Taken Aboard Last Voyage

Jim, if you want, i can e-mail you the pics of the newspaper.
It's dated Tuesday, May 11, 1915.
The one of the lifeboats seem to have a bit of pencil draw lines on them, but the other of passengers walking the promenade seems to be clear.
 
Jim Kalafus said:
CRYPTIC PHOTO: I have no idea on what ship this oddity I bought today was taken, but the elements of the severe list, unruffled gentleman seemingly ignorant of the missing outboard wall of the promenade deck on which he is seated, and the onrushing water combine to raise one convoluted series of questions. Sadly, whoever took this snapshot neglected to caption it.
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Hello Jim,

I just signed on to this message board. I am unable to access this image you are speaking of. Do you still have a link to it?

Thank you in advance.

Sincerely,

Ian McDermott
 
Does anyone know of the photo that is being discussed here? The image is no longer available from this thread from 10 years ago. I would like very much to see it.
 
I don't think Jim is active here anymore, his profile states his last login date as 2012.

It does sound like quite a photo though!

IanMcD said:
Hello Jim,

I just signed on to this message board. I am unable to access this image you are speaking of. Do you still have a link to it?

Thank you in advance.

Sincerely,

Ian McDermott
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Hello Adam. Thank you for the response.

I've had no luck contacting Jim or the other users that he emailed this photo to. Their email addresses are no longer active. Very frustrating! It would be nice to see what they were talking about. I've done all kinds of online searches but I can't find anything that matches what they are describing.

I have read of account of photos being taken as the Lusitania sank but none apparently survived the sinking. Is it possible that film of that era could be recovered from a camera laying on the seabed for nearly a century?
 
Hi Ian,

I believe I read something to the effect that Jim and the others moved to a discussion page on Facebook. Unfortunately the Lusitania section has lost steam, which is a shame. Good luck with the ship photos.

I do not know if film could have survived undeveloped that long. The cameras in use at the time were primarily a combination of wood, cardboard, or sheet metal/aluminum in construction. Most of those materials wouldn't survive well after 100 years if they were exposed. Also, one of the accounts (which I believe is referenced in this thread) mentions a reporter "taking photos as quickly as he could load his camera", that statement (along with his being a press man) indicates that he was not using a roll film, but a single photo plate. I am not certain of the materials used for the "film" or plates (some cameras actually used sheets of glass), but it probably wouldn't have survived immersion in water.

The fragment of the lost silent film mentioned was of course, a finished (processed) reel.
 
When posted images disappear from old threads this may be due to a change in the filepath after stored files are re-organised. In other words the image files may be still here, but the links are broken. Perhaps an administrator can help to restore them?
 
I was browsing through a book the other day that is a collection of photos that have appeared in the NY Times during the 20th century. I came across these photos of the sinking of the Vestris off the coast of Virginia in 1928. I'm not familiar with this ship or the incident but the photos here might capture some sense of what it was like on the Lusitania during the sinking.


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Hello Jim. Thank you for your response it is good to hear from you.

I am curious about the following that you wrote on this thread back on June 20, 2003:



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CRYPTIC PHOTO: I have no idea on what ship this oddity I bought today was taken, but the elements of the severe list, unruffled gentleman seemingly ignorant of the missing outboard wall of the promenade deck on which he is seated, and the onrushing water combine to raise one convoluted series of questions. Sadly, whoever took this snapshot neglected to caption it.


Do you recall which photo you are referring to here?
 
Thank you, Jim.

Very odd. My guess is that this was taken aboard a vessel that has grounded and is not in immediate danger of sinking. It doesn't seem likely to me that someone would have take time to snap a photo while a vessel was already so low on the water during a sinking.

Where did you find this photo?
 

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