Wee-Gee Blues, Bobby Smith and Orchestra, 1950
location, location, location… (1)
Weegee, Naked City, p. 50
A.C. Schwarz Co. Inc., 1860 Broadway (near 61st St.)… (near 9 west 61st St, New York, NY 10023)…
Weegee, (Berinson), p. 77
“If You Want to Know How Weegee Gets Pictures Like These…”
PM, March 9, 1941, pp. 48-51
“If You Want to Know How Weegee Gets Pictures Like These See Ralph Steiner’s Story on Next Page”
“Street Scene: Last Rights After Fire”
PM, March 8, 1942, p.3
Street Scene: Last Rights After Fire
“Three persons died in a one-alarm fire at a tenement with out fire escapes at 239 W. 16th St. yesterday. Seven other persons were injured. On the street after the bodies were removed, Father G.J. Knoepfel, S.J., pronounced the last rites as ambulance doctor held his hat. Two of the dead were identified as Mrs. Betty Hasara, 22, and her daughter Lucille, 8 months. The other body was too badly burned for identification. Two men were rescued from ladders; two women carrying children jumped from second-floor windows. Police are investigating the fire, which apparently started on the first floor and swept through the roof. Flames were 40 feet high when firemen arrived. Other fires yesterday took two lives in Brooklyn.” PM Photo by Weegee
“Tenement Fire
Kills 3; Mother
Leaps to Safety”
The Syracuse Herald Journal, March 8, 1942
details, details, details… (1)
Weegee
(Guess this photo… and win… absolutely nothing :-) )
The People’s Baths
The New York Times, March 6, 1896
The New Public Bath
To Be Erected in the Neighborhood of Tompkins Square
W.H. Tolman Talks of the Plans
Will Be a Beautiful Building, Probably of White Marble, After the Design of the People’s Bath
The work on the new public baths in the city, for which money has just been appropriated… can be begun at once. The plans for the baths are now ready. They were made by the architects who designed the building for the successful People’s Baths at 9 Centre Market Place, controlled by the Associated for the Improving the Condition of the Poor…
…Baths in the basement are for the men whose condition is such that is is not thought best to put them in the regular baths…
…The figures shown at the People’s Baths prove conclusively that such institutions are needed. In the year ending with September, 1895, 88.735 baths were taken…
The whole place is delightfully clean and attractive. The most fastidious could not object to a bath in such a place. Soap, towel, and use of a bath are given for 5 cents. The women have towels a little lighter in quality than those of the men. All the towels are put in disinfectants as soon as soiled, and later are carefully washed by steam power…”
(In January 1913, 5 cents had the same buying power as $1.28 in January 2019…)
(In January 1913, $1 had the same buying power as $25.68 in January 2019…)
“This Man Started His Crime Career at 12”
PM, March 5, 1941, p. 32
This Man Started His Crime Career at 12
“…by forging his mother’s name to an excuse for absence at school. Now at 23 George Joseph Cvek, a pock-marked hitch-hiker, finds himself handcuffed between detectives behind bars – a confessed thief, rapist and killer (On pages 12 and 13, his clinical profile.) PM Pohoto by Weegee.”
PM, March 5, 1941, pp. 12-13
Portrait of a Killer: George Cvek Got a Bad Start and Kept Going
By John Kobler
“George Joseph Cvek (pronounced Civic), who admits having assaulted and robbed 15 women, raped 3 of them, and murdered a 16th, is one of the most unimaginative rogues ever filed in a Rogues’ Gallery…”
Daily Argus, March 4, 1941, p.1 (Associated Press Photo)
Brooklyn Eagle, March 4, 1941, p. 1 (Wide World Photo)
George Joseph Cvek, described by the NY Times as a 23-year-old “hitch-hike robber,” was arrested Monday, March 3, 1941 in a ” in a cheap midtown Manhattan hotel” (New Mills Hotel at 36th and 7th Ave., WI sconson 7-3254)…
One of the greatest lesser-known Weegee photos, printed as a full page in PM, shows how great the symbiotic relationship between photographer and newspaper…
(To be continued…)
NOT! “RARE! WEEGEE: VINTAGE STAMPED PHOTO 1940s”
(Images from ebay)
“RARE! WEEGEE: VINTAGE STAMPED PHOTO 1940s”
US $55.00 – Buy It Now, or Make an Offer
“JUST FOUND IN ARCHIVE Last one!!!
RARE WEEGEE PHOTO IN GOOD COUNDITION FOR ITS AGE AND RARITY!
Weegee was the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig, a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography”
Item specifics:
Original/Reprint: Original Print
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Modified Item: No
Region of Origin: US
Date of Creation: 1940-1949
Photo Type: Gelatin Silver
Size Type/Largest Dimension: 5×4
Color: Black & White
(Words copied from ebay.)
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It might be “rare,” it might be “stamped,” it might be a photo…
(There are frequently misspellings and bad grammar in fraudulent ebay listings.)
Nevertheless this photo was not made by Weegee…
Stooge Guarding Waterfront and Hurrell’s Hollywood Glamour
“Stooge for Bund Leader Guards Our Waterfront”, by Gene De Poris, PM, March 3, 1942, p. 5, (photos by Leo Lieb, Weegee)
PM, March 3, 1942, pp. 5, 16-17
Photography
5 by Hurrell
Steiner Picks Hollywood Glamor Man’s Best Work
Sumptuously Sexy… Bette Davis… a dramatic actress with fire in her veins…
Unique Personality of a Dietrich…
Pools of Mysterious Black… Now editors demand dark pictures, say they’re his trademark. This is Conchita Montenegro.
The Woman everyman showers with… Ann Sheridan…
Sex and Glamor… dancer Zorina… to capture a feeling of soaring into space.
“George Hurrell is the top glamor photographer in Hollywood. He has lived two success stories…
Hurrell chose a middle corse. He decided against the daily grind and also against life in a garret… He didn’t consider glamor pictures world-shakingly inportant, but they were the thing he did best. It was work he could have fun at if he could be his own boss.
Hurrell quit and moved into his own studio, kept overhead low by doing most of the work himself. Now he makes fewer but better picture; earns plenty; takes time off. He’s a happy man. That’s Hurrell’s second success story. – Ralph Steiner.” PM, March 3, 1942, pp. 16-17
“…rescued these two kittens…”
PM, March 2, 1943
“When fire swept the five-story loft building at 372 E. Houston St., Manhattan, the policeman, above, rescued these two kittens from a hallway. Later he gave them to Miss Sally Strumfeld, 218 Delancey St., who promised to give them a good home. Some small manufacturing firms and the Congregation Israel Anscheigal Icie Minhagsford occupy the Houston St. building. Holy scrolls were carried out by members of the congregation.” PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee, Naked City, 1945, pp. 60-61
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