By Rich Remsberg

Poster for the Hanlons’ Le Voyage en Suisse, c. 1900. Artist unknown. Archive: Library of Congress.

THE HANLON BROTHERS Le Voyage en Suisse The Trip to Switzerland Le Voyage en Suisse

Results of hurricane, Miami, September 18, 1926. Photographer: R. S. Clements. Archive: Library of Congress.

NEWS PHOTOS

Burned-out shell of Eastern Airlines plane that crashed in a field in North Salem after a mid-air collision with a TWA 707 jet, which then landed safely at Kennedy Airport, December 4, 1965. More than 100 got out alive. Photographer: Syd Greenberg. Archive: Author’s collection (from New York City flea market).

The Naperville train wreck at the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad station, April 26, 1946. Many of the people on the trains were servicemen returning from WWII. All photos this page: Charles Cushman. Archive: Indiana University Archives.

CHARLES CUSHMAN

The Naperville train wreck, 15 minutes after the No. 39 train plowed into the rear of No. 11. Forty-seven dead—all in last coach of No. 11.

Ruins of fire-swept building at 4600 S. Paulina Street, Chicago, January 16, 1949.

Shoulder of Hwy 4/24. Truck wreck, Contra Costa County, California, May 31, 1957.

Members of the Buffalo Historical Marionettes with the set of Death Takes the Wheel. Photographer unknown. Archive: Library of Congress.

THE BUFFALO HISTORICAL MARIONETTES Blood on the Highway The Bottle and the Throttle Death Takes the Wheel

Scene from Death Takes the Wheel. Photographer unknown. Archive: Library of Congress.

TRAIN WRECKS

Staged train collision near Waco, Texas, September 15, 1896. Photographer: J. C. Deane. Archive: Texas Collection, Baylor University.