Despite their size, these are well-executed amature photographs and incorporate some of the most famous views taken of the liner including what is generally acknowledged to be the last known photograph, snapped from the pilot tender 2½ miles from Queenstown. In their album order, which appears quite random, they depict as follows: 1. View from tender (first of two); 2. The S.S. New York swinging out across Titanic's bows; 3. The last known view of Titanic; 4. The tug Vulcan pulling the S.S. New York clear; 5. The S.S. New York immediately prior to Vulcan's assistance; 6. Titanic's main deck with a rare view of the compass platform and funnels three and four; 7. Close-up view of Titanic's starboard side facing aft, detailing portholes, boarding doors and four life boats; 8. Family group shot near compass platform, L-R: R.W. May, Lily Odell, Stanley J. May and Jack Odell; 9. Jack Odell standing on steps in front of the compass platform.

Although Master Odell is seen with his camera, it has never been established what became of any photographs he himself may have taken with it. Jack Odell, born in 1900, was eleven when he and his family embarked on a tour of Ireland. Despite the subsequent significance of the photographs his aunt and he took, the whole event seems to have made little lasting impression on him. Questioned a few years before his death in 1995, he confessed that he could not remember the holiday or his unintentioned brush with history and could recall no detail of the short trip from Southampton to Queenstown at all! Despite this, he and his family have allowed images from this album to be used in several publications and have preserved the following few lots from the family archive.