History, examined beyond the frame.

Four months after opening, Tacoma’s new suspension bridge collapsed. The photographs show its brief working life; the film reveals a failure often explained incorrectly.

Two calendars, a collapsing government and photographs often taken months or years apart: the records behind the Bolshevik seizure of power deserve a closer look.

The elephant in Thomas Nast’s famous cartoon was frightened, and the donkey was a newspaper. Reading the labels reveals the quarrel behind a lasting party symbol.

On November 7, 1944, Franklin Roosevelt won a fourth term. Behind the campaign photographs stood a war, a serious illness and the choice of Harry Truman.

Born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie changed the study of radioactivity. Her photographs also tell a less tidy story of equipment, family and money.

On November 7, 1885, a hammer blow completed the Canadian Pacific Railway’s track connection. The construction photographs tell a larger, harder story.