PM, December 24, 1940
It’s No Trick that makes this steeplejack look as high up as the Chrysler Building needle – just the camera angle. He’s Andy Collins, 1074 Summit Ave., Bronx, painting the 60-foot pole atop the 38-story Commerce Building, 155 E. 44th St. Photo by Weegee
PM, December 24, 1940
It’s No Trick that makes the Chrysler Building look like the Chrysler Building – just the camera angle…
PM, August 26, 1940, p.9
From Federal Penitentiary to This…
Two guns and the prostrate form of Louis Riggione tell the story. Released from prison two months ago, Riggione was enjoying his freedom by an early morning walk with his brother, Joseph, when underworld bullets mowed him down.
PM, November 8, 1940, p.16
Burlesque… By Reginald Marsh
The Artist as Reporter
…Reginald Marsh [1898–1954], for this page, worked backstage at Harold Minsky’s [1915-1977] Gaiety, Broadway at 46th St…
PM, November 8, 1940, p.17
Bellevue Morgue By Frederick Castellon [1914–1971]
The artist-as-reporter in the house of death…
PM, November 5, 1940, pp. 18-19 (Photos by David Eisendrath, William Brunk, Morris Gordon, John DeBiase)
The Camera Sees Some of the 50,000,000 Go To the Polls
PM, November 4, 1940, p. 9
LEWIS W. HINE, 66, documentary photographer whose pictures of the Red Cross in the World War, sweatshops and sociological conditions brought him fame, at Dobbs Ferry Hospital. He was known professionally as Lewhine.
The New York Times, November 4, 1940
Lewis H. Hine
Photographer Whose Pictures Showed Conditions in Factories
PM, November 1, p. 12 (Unidentified photographer)
Mark Hellinger
PM, August 23, 1940, Exclusive Photo by Weegee
Masked, Armed Bandits Rob Manhattan Mail Train
Mail Clerk Brooks Hall waiting for police to saw away handcuffs clamped on by bandits.
Rome, NY, August 24, 1940
Train Robbers Shackle Mail Clerk
Brooks Hall (center) railway mail clerk on a New York Central train held up by six gunmen at the Marble Hill station in New York City, was shackled to an iron post in the mail car, along with his companion. The robbers escaped with a mail pouch which they apparently thought carried money shipments but which postal authorities said carried nothing of value.
Albany, August 24, 1940 (Associated Press Photo)
Shackled by Train Robbers
Weegee, Herald Tribune, August 4, 1940
Heat-Wave Nocturne in Downtown New York
Weegee, “Naked City,” 1945
The New York Times, May 28, 1940
TWO LEPKE AIDES FACE COURT TODAY
Strauss and Capone Accused With Racketeer and 3 Others of First-Degree Murder
The New York Times, May 28, 1940
[By the end of May 1940 the “Brooklyn murder syndicate” (Murder, Inc.), was dying, due in part to a few murders with “corroboration,” … and Duke Ellington and his Orchestra were creating great music…]
The New York Times, May 24, 1940
TWO IN MURDER RING QUICKLY CONVICTED
Maione and Abbandando Are Found Guilty by Kings Jury, Must Go to the Chair
LEPKE INDICTED IN 2 CASES
Racketeer Accused in O’Dwyer Inquiry of Slayings by the Brooklyn ‘Syndicate’
…witness was Abe Reles… and poured into the record a four-hour account of shootings, stabbings and strangulations unparalleled in the annals of modern gangland history…
The New York Times, May 24, 1940
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