Photo of icebergs around CARPATHIA

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A photograph of the ocean taken from the CARPATHIA on the day it rescued survivors of the TITANIC disaster. It was taken by Dr. Frank Blackmarr, a passenger of CARPATHIA who assisted in the rescue and documented the events in an album of photographs and notes. He was particularly interested in documenting the ice that surrounded the area, and this photograph, though damaged and unclear, clearly shows large icebergs in the distance. Less clear, but somewhat visible on the horizon when enlarged, is the field ice layer that Dr. Blackmarr described. In his notes (item #2020.39.7387), he estimates the sheet of ice was 90 feet high, 80 miles long and 12 miles wide. The iceberg on the far left of the photo may be the double spired iceberg that Blackmarr seems to have identified as the one that destroyed the TITANIC.