On the front pages of two periodicals, published in different countries, we find a striking example of the international circulation of images employed to cover the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. The first of these front pages is that of a conventional metropolitan broadsheet newspaper – the Montreal Daily Star for March 3, 1932 (Fig. 1). Under the headline “Mystery Surrounds Movement of Colonel Lindbergh”, three photographs cascade down the page. The image at greatest distance from th...