The photograph, the source, and the unknowns
The Library of Congress record for this frame states the ending plainly: it was taken "before the orphans of the Titanic were correctly identified and returned to their mother". Somebody saw a published photograph and recognised a face. That is the whole of it.
- Archive caption
- "Louis and Lola" from the Titanic
- Creator
- Bain News Service
- Date
- 1912-04
- Credit
- Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
- Rights
- LoC rights advisory: 'No known restrictions on publication.' George Grantham Bain Collection. · Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Source record
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This face is unanswered. A suggestion is sent privately for review and does not become a public fact until confirmed.
This link carries its own context.
Bain News Service. “"Louis & Lola ? from Titanic".” 1912-04. Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection. https://www.loc.gov/item/2014690328/. Viewed via Nostalgia Museum artifact 806, reviewed 22 August 2026. https://getnostalgia.ai/museum/artifact/JR5an0x4yGHmer_j/806/face/1048
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