In 1953 Walter Schau hung by his ankles off a bridge north of Redding, California, to lower a rope to a trucker whose cab dangled 40 feet above the water, then climbed down into the burning cab for the second man. His wife photographed the rescue with the last two frames on her Brownie camera, and the picture won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize as the first for photography ever won by a woman.
