The history of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 has been plagued by tall tales, conspiracy theories, and urban legends.
that Palmer carried a handheld camera on the ship that responded to the Titanic's distress call:
In 1900, the Eastman Kodak Company came out with the handheld box camera known as the"Brownie." An immediate hit, more than 100,000 were sold in its first year. Canadian Bernice"Bernie" Palmer received a Kodak Brownie box camera, either for Christmas 1911 or for her birthday on January 10th, 1912.In early April, Bernie and her mother boarded the Cunard liner Carpathia in New York, for a Mediterranean cruise.
After arriving back in New York, Palmer was approached by an employee with Underwood & Underwood, a New York photography agency. They negotiated a deal for $10 so that Underwood & Underwood could develop and use the photographs, what the Smithsonian Institution today called
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