Naked City, “A Run for the Money,” March 14, 1962
As this installation view shows, Lieutenant Parker’s office gallery has been rehung… Pickle Barrels, an informant, poses and snoozes below a pair of Weegee photos: “On the Roof,” August 1941 and [Murder of Carlo Tresca], January 1943…. Police officers working over dead men… In an episode of the T.V. series “Naked City” called: “A Run for the Money,” from March 14, 1962… Weegee on T.V…
PM, February 21, 1941
“Court reports say the Esposito brothers, who set Fifth Avenue into a murderous uproar last month, killing two men and wounding two others, are feigning insanity at Bellevue Hospital. When psychiatrists are present, the two murders go off into a variety of fits but when no one but nurses are around the two prisoners are gallant, talkative and otherwise quite sane…”
PM, February 20, 1941
“Feast of the Bums”
by Ben Hecht
“It’s a dirty day around Houston Street and Bowery. The wind’s blowing. The cold takes a bite out of you. There’s a stale smell in the air as if something were dead…”
PM, February 19, 1941, pp. 14 and 18 (photos by M. Engel)
“Have You Sent Your Message?…”
“1001 Afternoons in New York,” by Ben Hecht
“A War Bonnet in Chatham Square…”
“Tattoo-o-graphs done by Charlie Wagner, 11 Chatham Square”
Extra! Weegee, page 104
“Fire Defies Test Blackout
When New York City and New Jersey went dark tonight to test new air raid signals, this four-alarm fire in a paper factory illuminated a large section of downtown Manhattan…” February 18, 1943
Extra! Weegee, page 104
PM, February 18, 1943 (photos by Weegee and Steven Derry)
“Two Alarm Fire at Greene and E. Third St… The fire was in a paper bag company on the third floor.”
Same fire, other side…
Perhaps the fire was at:
Salwen Paper Co., 189-195 Greene street
Henry F. Fulling Co. Inc. paper, 202 Greene street
Henry Fuchs & Son, paper & twine, 215 Greene Street
New York Times, February 19, 1943, pp, 1 and 13
“New Raid Signal Blacks Out City
Public Response Encouraging, Mayor Says, but He Orders Another Drill Tonight…
Lightless, that is so far as man-made illumination was concerned. The clear full moon converted the side streets, the wide stretches of Broadway and Seventh Avenue into deserted silver lanes…”
PM, February 18, 1943, pp. 4-5
“Myth of Master Race Exploded by Science” by Albert Deutsch.
“City of New York Air Raid Instructions”
“Paste This on the Kitchen Door
Army’s new air-aid regulations went into effect yesterday. First test, with blackout, will be tonight at 9.”
PM, February 2, 1941, p. 20
“2nd Ave. El Destruction Started by Mayor LaGuardia”
(Screenshot from Swanngallieries.com)
Copied from: Swanngallieries.com:
“Sale 2466 Lot 70
What do Wear. Ferrotyped silver print, the image measuring 13 1/8×10 1/2 inches (33.3×26.7 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with a Credit Photo by Weegee hand stamp and a typed caption label on verso; a Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery label is affixed to the the obverse of the lower mat. Circa 1941
From the Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York; to a Private Collector, in the 1970s.”
Sold for $2750.00
Morris Weinstock, of 130 Baruch Place, (Manhattan, not Brooklyn), starring in “What to Wear,” published in PM on October 15, 1941…
(Screenshot from Swanngallieries.com)
Copied from: Swanngallieries.com:
“Sale 2466 Lot 92
At Sammy’s in the Bowery. Ferrotyped silver print, the image measuring 13 1/2×10 1/2 inches (34.3×26.7 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with the Brooklyn Academy of Music Benefit hand stamp, with the credit, title, date notations, and the edition notation 30/100, in pencil, on verso. 1944; printed 1993
From the Collection of Peter Morris.
Unsold”
or
“Price Realized: $618
(Screenshot from Swanngallieries.com)
Lot 270, from the auction house website:
“A series of four photographs showing how the police break into a safe.
Silver prints, the images measuring 7 1/2×9 1/2 inches (5.4×7.6 to 24.1×19.1 cm.), and the reverse, each with Weegee’s Photo-Representative credit hand stamp and his 47th Street hand stamp, on verso. 1940s.”
(They can be seen here.)
The photos could have been made by Weegee, or any of hundreds of other photographers. The paper is single weight and a little smaller than 8 x 10,” the printing is neat, borders are even, suggesting that Weegee didn’t make the prints. Each photo has two “Weegee” stamps: a “Please Credit Weegee From Photo-Representatives” and “WEEGEE, 451 W. 47 Street, New York, N.Y. 10036, 212-265-1955.” They are stamped haphazardly, with dark black ink, and the 451 address is clearly legible. They have the same stamps as Lot 271. These “Weegee” stamps don’t match real or authentic stamps.
If these are the same stamps that were used on the backs of the photos in Lot 271, then Weegee probably did not make these photos. Of course it’s possible that Weegee made these photos in the 40s and someone had the stamps made and then used the stamps in the 80s or 90s or even in the 21st century…
Another photo in this series was at an auction in the summer of 2017:
WEEGEEWEEGEEWEEGEE 