![]() ![]() ![]() The contract reads as follows: Assignment of Copyright. Sometime later, her father was quite upset with this arrangement since Bernice did not realize the importance of these photos. Here are the five photos released to Underwood & Underwood by Bernice Palmer. I’m not sure if she actually just got one dollar or ten dollars, but it was a measly sum for five of the most iconic photographs of the Titanic survivors and iceberg. In the contract, however, it states “In consideration of One Dollar, lawful money of the UNITED STATES, and other valuable consideration. They offered to develop, print and return the pictures to Bernice for ten dollars. Underwood & Underwood quickly drew up a contract to distribute the photos that Bernice had taken on the Carpathia. While on the Carpathia, Bernice was approached by an unnamed newsman for Underwood & Underwood, a New York photography agency. He gave strict orders for a news “blackout” regarding the Titanic tragedy during the return trip. After rescuing the survivors, Captain Rostron had abandoned the trip to the Mediterranean and returned to New York. It took the Carpathia about three days to return to New York. ” It was at this moment that Bernice realized the magnitude of what had happened. “Women with borrowed cloths from the lost men who went down with the ship”.Īfter all the survivors were rescued, the Carpathia made another pass over the site of the Titanic’s sinking. “A well-dressed woman always wore a hat when she went out – even on a shipwreck.” She remembers how many of the women were wearing over-sized coats from the men who went down with the Titanic. ![]() She remembers seeing many of the first class passengers being rescued as ‘well-dressed’. Some of the children from the Titanic rescue boats where so terrified they were drawn up in burlap bags.īernice remembers as the passengers where being lifted that “their faces looked frozen and terrified”. Bernice and her mother stood quietly on deck as the crew of the Carpathia began rope-lifting passengers up from the life boats. She opened a port-hole of her first-class cabin on the Carpathia and turned to her mother and said, “Something terrible has happened.” She quickly got dressed and hurried on deck. ![]()
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