Press photographs mainly of events, accidents, disasters, collapses, fires, explosions, earthquakes and miscellaneous. Set of over thirty prints, mostly silver, prints and reproductions. Circa 1950-65. On the reverse of some prints, captions (e.g.: after a collision in Zurich, no - it's not a mushroom cloud, fire in the 19th arrondissement, a building collapses in Nogent-sur-Marne, rail disaster near Tokio, refusal to give way - 5 dead, a bus crashes into a ravine in Corrèze, earthquake in Iran, over 100,000 victims in Hamburg, sabotage of a high-voltage line tower near Bordeaux, several injured in this bus, ....) and/or stamp. Various states and formats.

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