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In 1938, Gum, Inc. published
this card in a "Horrors of War" series. It shows photographer
Gerda Taro being crushed by a tank while covering the Spanish Civil
War. She was twenty-five years old.
Gerda was the companion of the famous war photographer, Robert Capa.
They began their professional careers in Paris by inventing fictious
names and identities in order to sell photos. You can read their tale
on a number of different websites, though there's some disagreement
about who taught whom photography.
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