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1940


Unidentified Photographers, New York Daily News, June 21, 1940

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New York Daily News, June 22, 1940
Weegee or Unidentified Photographer, Detective examines board and glass shattered in blast at 17 Battery Place, June 22, 1940

From a Midtown Manhattan Museum’s website:
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Weegee, Investigator, (who looks like & is Weegee) at Manhattan Police Hdqs, looks over fragments of broken glass, & metal from scene of bombings, for clues, in 2 bombings at German Consulate Bldg, & Daily Worker, note piece of wood, from German Consulate Bldg bombing, June 1940

Except for the stripes on the tie going in the opposite direction, that’s a pretty close match… Fellig playing and/or posing as investigator/detective…


Weegee, PM Daily, November 24, 1940

2 Die in Wrecked Car
Dr. Albion O. Bernstein, 28, interne, and Miss. Helen Ayers, nurse at Beth Israel Hospital, were drowned early yesterday when his car plunged over the string piece and into the East River at Pier 60, East 21st St. Picture shows emergency squad men lifting Miss Ayers from the car. Photo by Weegee


Ceegee, Weegee Daily, November 24, 2012 – approximate location…

0 Die in Wrecked Car…Picture shows the remnants of what was perhaps, Pier 60, East 21st St. and the East River… Photo by Ceegee

Footnote, or, after a few minutes of Googling:
“The Bernstein Award
This national award, endowed by the late Morris J. Bernstein in memory of his son, a physician who died in an accident while answering a hospital call in 1940, is given to a physician or scientist who has made a significant contribution in medicine, surgery, or disease prevention during the previous calendar year.
The award consists of a check for $2000.00 and a citation. Information on the MSSNY Continuing Medical Education Program can be obtained here…”

(from the Internet… Albion O. Bernstein memorial Volume, 1943)


Ceegee, Weegee Daily, November 24, 2012 – approximate location…



PM Daily, July 28, 1940

They’d Sooner Be at the Beach, But Heat or No Heat, Jobs Are Scarce

Weegee, the wag, finished up the day by taking his own picture in the darkroom. Note camera release in his hand…

Two pages full of heroic, hot, workers, and in the corner… Weegee showering in the darkroom…