Esther Bindursky Photo

Article about Esther Bindursky’s photograph of a nun who survived a 1955 train wreck in Marked Tree (Poinsett County). The photo won a first-place National Federation of Press Women award and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; May 12, 1956.

Newspaper article featuring a train wreck and a nun walking toward the camera.

From the Arkansas Gazette, May 12, 1956

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