Postcard publishers wanting to capitalize on the market for Titanic disaster postcards were panicked by the news that the Cunard Line's RMS Carpathia had rescued Titanic's survivors. Because Carpathia was neither large, nor fast, nor elegant, few photographers had bothered to capture her image. Here an unknown publisher has resorted to altering a photograph of RMS Mauretania, fastest ship on the Atlantic. The postcard was mailed in New York on May 8, 1912.
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