The New York Times has reported that three suitcases containing Robert Capa’s Spanish Civil War negatives, once thought lost, have finally been recovered from a Mexico City film-maker after seven decades.

Photo by Tony Cenicola/The New York Times

A slide show of a select few images from the 3,500 negatives can be viewed on The New York Times site.

The negatives, taken by Robert Capa during the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War, might finally reveal the mystery of whether his famous photograph, “The Falling Soldier” (see image below), was staged or not.

Photo by Robert Capa/I.C.P. Collection