Along a weathered stone wall in the fishing village of Ploubazlanec, Brittany, hundreds of memorial plaques and crosses press against ancient granite — each one a quiet cry from a family left behind. This is the Mur des Disparus en Mer, the Wall of Those Lost at Sea, where the wives, mothers, and children of Icelandic cod fishermen inscribed the names of men swallowed by the North Atlantic. Paimpol was the heartbeat of France's brutal Pêche à Islande trade, and between 1852 and 1935 more than 2,000 local sailors perished in those freezing waters — their bodies never recovered, their graves forever the sea. Pierre Loti immortalized this grief in his 1886 novel Pêcheur d'Islande, and the Wall became a pilgrimage site for literary travelers and grieving Breton families alike. This sepia phototype card, published by A. Bruel of Angers and numbered 61, captures the Wall before overcrowding masked its individual plaques, making it a rare early document of the memorial in its rawest form. The undivided-back format and phototypie printing technique date the card firmly to the pre-linen era, circa 1903–1907.