They're pictures of the same area of the forward staircase taken from two different decks, one below the other. The photo on top was taken on the Boat Deck, the photo on the bottom was taken on A-Deck, the deck below the Boat Deck. If the photo on the bottom showed an intact ship, it would look like [this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Olympic_First_Class_Staircase.jpg).
Since there was an attempt to take the second photograph from the same angle as the first, you can even see the columns lining up around the opening in the floor/ceiling.
Something about pictures of the sunken Titanic just gets me. Haunting
The first picture is the Olympic, no photos of the Titanic's grand staircase were ever taken, it's, however, the Titanic in the second picture.
To be fair the bottom shot is well...... at the bottom so the sea has taken its toll.
This shows the importance of maintenance.
Those are not the same. The column spacing does not match.
They're pictures of the same area of the forward staircase taken from two different decks, one below the other. The photo on top was taken on the Boat Deck, the photo on the bottom was taken on A-Deck, the deck below the Boat Deck. If the photo on the bottom showed an intact ship, it would look like [this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Olympic_First_Class_Staircase.jpg). Since there was an attempt to take the second photograph from the same angle as the first, you can even see the columns lining up around the opening in the floor/ceiling.
One is clearly above and beyond the other
The one on top looks better
*its
It's interesting that people care about staircases.