The Knickerbocker Storm: Photographs from the historic blizzard that ended in tragedy, 1922

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In the recorded history of Washington, DC the Knickerbocker storm remains unsurpassed, both for the amount of snow it produced and for its devastating toll on human life. The collapse of the roof at the Knickerbocker Theater, which took 98 lives (many of them children), was described by the Washington Post as the “greatest disaster […]