UNDATED (CBS) -- After 99 years on the ocean floor, the titanic is still the stuff of legend here on land. Now, a survivor's archive of the tragedy including never-before-seen photos will be up for sale tomorrow.
April 10th, 1912, the titanic set sail for its first and last time. For John and Nelle Snyder, it's how they spent their honeymoon, among more than 2,200 passengers and eventually just 700 survivors.
Their photos of the rescue and their writings of how it all happened are now headed to the auction block. One of john's letters describing the ship fade into history says, "When we had moved some distance away from the Titanic we realized by looking at the bow seeing the different rows of port holes getting less and less...that the finest boat in the world was doomed..."
Phil Weiss runs the New York auction house that's now selling the memorabilia. He says, "You don't see these kinds of things come to the market anymore most of this material has been located, found, and accounted for."
The items include a letter from John Snyder to his own father. This photo is believed to show the newlyweds in the clothes they were wearing when rescued. John wrote that Nelle saved their lives. In another letter John says, "She is the one that urged me to get up when I wanted to go back to bed. We were almost the very first people placed in the life boat."
Perhaps the Snyder's greatest treasure, these photos showing lifeboats navigating the frigid Atlantic on their way to the rescue ship Carpathia. And most remarkable of all what may be the only image ever seen of the iceberg that took down the unsinkable Titanic.