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"The Last of the Titanic"
Three sepia photographs taken from R.M.S. Oceanic on May 13th 1912 showing the discovery and final recovery of the last of Titanic collapsable canvass lifeboats, mounted on a card album leaf with manuscript notes reading I crossed the Atlantic one month after the Titanic catastrophe; we picked up one of the lifeboats with two nigger-like unreconisable corpses of a passenger in evening dress, + two firemen, wedged below the seats. The arms came off in the hands of the Oceanic boarding officer. Womens rings were found. The bodies were buried, + the prayer service read; the lifeboat then hauled on to our deck, when I cut this piece out of the boat covering. The strip of lifeboat covering alluded to here and which had been glued to the leaf with the photographs, went missing when the photographs were lent to a television company some years ago -- 13½ x 21in. (34 x 53cm.)
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