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Weegee Wednesday triptych: “Loafer Shoots Cop in Tussle at Park Zoo”
Weegee, “John Shafran,” 1940 (2374.1993) On September 9th, in three different years, 1940, 1941 and 1943, Weegee had photos published in PM. Three posts will present these photos and stories. Three...
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Weegee Wednesday triptych: Celebrations and Thanks
On September 9th, in three different years, 1940, 1941 and 1943, Weegee had photos published in PM. Three posts will present these photos and stories… Three for 09/09, Part 3: Celebrations and Thanks....
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Weegee Wednesday: 74 Years Ago Today “… the whole machine was reduced to this...
PM, October 14, 1941, Vol. 2, No. 85, p. 15 (Photos by Weegee and Bob Evans.) 32 People Have Died on This West Side Highway Curve There’s a murderous curve on the West Side Highway at Little W. 12th...
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Weegee Wednesday: Killer Cars
Weegee, [Car crash], ca. 1939 (14147.1993) Weegee, [Car crash], ca. 1941 (14149.1993) Weegee, [Car crash], ca. 1940 (14145.1993) Weegee, [Car crash], ca. 1938 (14142.1993) Weegee, Holiday accidents...
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Weegee Wednesdays: Halloween Resurrection or Reanimation or Whatever…
Weegee, “This was a friendly game of bocci, New York” ca. 1939 (995.1993) Let’s try to communicate with and possibly bring back the dead… We could use a Ouija Board. Or, we could use Photoshop. Let’s...
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Dances of the Devil: A Witch and Half a Dozen Devils (Six Satans) and a Mailbox
Voila, March 30, 1935, (2007.71.25) Voila, March 31, 1934 (2007.71.62) Vu, January 9, 1929 (2007.84.3) Weegee, “The foreman of the devils was peeved, because the assistant devils were not in costume.”...
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Six Skulls (for Halloween)
Andreas Feininger, Ritual Skull, 1969, (841.1976) Vu, June 29, 1932 (2009.61.20) (One cover photo by André Kertész.) Vu, April 3, 1935 (2009.61.101) (Photo by Martin Munkacsi.) Danny Lyon, Mark di...
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Weegee Wednesday: “City’s Happiest Mother”
Weegee (1899-1968), “City’s Happiest Mother Cuddles Stolen Daughter,” March 14, 1943 (778.1993) Weegee (1899-1968), PM, March 14, 1941, p. 16 City’s Happiest Mother Cuddles Stolen Daughter Life will...
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Weegee Wednesday: Welcome Back!
Weegee (1899-1968), “All Steamed Up,” May 9, 1940 (2423.1993) All Steamed Up This started off as a break in a water main… as all the cameramen left… on a hunch I stuck around alone… suddenly there was...
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Weegee Wednesday: Weegee and Lee
Lee Sievan (1907-1990), Weegee and Sammy: Book Party – Weegee’s People at Sammy’s on the Bowery, November 11, 1946 (41.1985) Lee Sievan (1907-1990), Book Party – Weegee’s People at Sammy’s on the...
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Weegee Wednesday: “Dora,” Weegee says, “is a singer of sentimental songs at...
Dora Pelletier singing a medley of “I Want a Girl (Like The Girl That Married Dear Old Dad)” [Harry Von Tilzer and William A. Dillon, 1911], “After The Ball” [Charles K. Harris, 1891], “The Band...
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Weegee Wednesday: “Drunks Arrested on Bowery”
Weegee, Drunks arrested on the Bowery, 1943-45 (2395.1993) Across the street from Elizabeth Tailor, and slightly below Canal, the American Jobbing Co. Inc. once occupied 23 Elizabeth St. (Now there is...
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“Me?”
Handwritten notes on: Supervue Map and Guide Co., New York Souvenir Album – Camera Masterpieces, The Golden Guide To The Metropolis, 1937 (2009.34.10) The handwritten notes add a delightful narrative...
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“This is Sammy…”
Weegee (1899-1968), This is Sammy of Sammy’s on the Bowery, ca. 1945 (14308.1993) Sammy greets all his patrons at the door. I noticed he frisked some of the Bowery ones. He told me that they were the...
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Weegee Wednesday: A Moondog Centennial
Two of the most significant composers and musicians of the 20th century, Moondog and Miles Davis, were born 100 and 90 years ago tomorrow, May 26. Moondog was born in 1916 and Miles in 1926. To...
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“An End To Liberty”
Weegee (1899-1968), An End to Liberty, June 1, 1941 (16741.1993) PM, June 1, 1941, p. 12, Vol. I, No. 50. p. 12 75 years ago today the PM printed the above photo and caption: An End To Liberty This...
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Made on the Bowery: J. D. Maxwell –“Above All Competitors”
J. D. Maxwell, [Unidentified Man], ca. 1880 (1572.1990) This photo was made (perhaps by John Dey Maxwell, ca. 1843-1929, whose occupations included bookkeeper, butcher, photographer, “artist”, baker,...
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Made on the Bowery: Charles Eisenmann –“The Popular Photographer”
Charles Eisenmann (1850-1904), [Grandmother Carrie Meyer], ca. 1880 (2012.34.28) This photo was made by Charles Eisenmann on 229 Bowery (now the site of The Bowery Mission). Tagged: Bowery, Charles...
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“The Bowery by day… Where only the El makes music…”
Weegee, Bowery, 1943-45, (14391.1993) Looking north on the Bowery across Broome toward Kenmare. to the right is William Simpson and Co., pawnbrokers, at 151 Bowery. The Third Avenue Elevated is at...
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Stollmack & Goldstein: 310 Bowery
Stollmack & Goldstein, [Louise Milefsky], February 4, 1902, (2012.34.13) A map (an experiment and work-in-progress) of photos in the ICP archives that were made on the Bowery: G.W. Bromley &...
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