ad magazine still existed the second week of March 2020, one could easily imagine its editors scrambling to pull together a large feature that contextualized the rapidly unfolding COVID-19 pandemic. Global in scope, with scientific, personal-interest, and economic angles, it was precisely the kind of story that the magazine, in its mid-twentieth-century heyday, helped millions of readers understand. What made unique, and what helps make it an object of enduring historical fascination, is that the stories it told were primarily visual.
