1940
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Defiant Readers Amid the Ruins: The Holland House Library During the London Blitz
Captured in October 1940, a haunting photograph shows Londoners calmly browsing books inside the shattered, roofless shell of the Holland House Library after a devastating German air raid during the Blitz.
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The Swaying Span: The 1940 Photograph That Captured the Fall of ‘Galloping Gertie’
Stranded on a road deck twisted to a terrifying forty-five-degree tilt over Puget Sound on November 7, 1940, Leonard Coatsworth’s abandoned sedan sits moments before the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.