Hiding in a junk-store box, unseen for 82 years.
Historians, journalists astounded!
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Earlier this year, he pulled it out for a look.
Young soon got in touch with me.
(Im Weegees biographer.)
When they hit my in-box, I about fell out of my chair.
But most were new to both me and the ICP curators.
To my eye, several of them rank with Weegees best work.
Its like discovering 73 unknown poems by Walt Whitman or unearthing a novella by Melville.
Even the second-string photos are pretty good.
(Nights, really.)
Nearly all were shot in April and May 1937.
There are two tenement fires, a couple of nasty car crashes, and at least eight murders represented.
This is when Fellig was Fellig a hardworking photographer, working constantly, George says.
To my knowledge, not one of these pictures has been published for 82 years.
This isnt the first such discovery from Weegees newshound years, which ran from about 1935 to 1947.
Those pictures mostly went into a museum collection, though some of the material went on the open market.
Young, who is not a rich man, seems floored by his ownAntiques Roadshowish discovery.
(Unfamiliar images like this would likely go for less, though you never know.)
One thing is for sure: Hes not putting masking tape on any of the other pictures.
His body turned up early that morning behind the New York Public Library.
George Christie to marry her.
George (seen below right, in black hat) didnt want the kids.
The elder Helen got 20 years to life.
Her confession let George off the hook, whereupon he was put up for deportation back to Greece.
Jimmy went to a foster home.
The kids peering into the car (seen above) are jeering at George after his arrest.
The impact knocked this car into the path of a trolley, flipping the automobile over and crushing it.
The New YorkEvening Journalturned it into a lesson, writing, Look at the pictures again, Mr.
The woman in the light-colored suit was chanting Father Divine is God!
Father Divine is God!
Irwin died in an institution in 1975.
The couple fled, then came back to town a few hours later and turned themselves in.
Both went to prison.
Much more about the storyhere.
All three occupants, including the driver, were drunk, and all were hurt.
I shot the second man laid out on the ground.
The third fellow I caught on the stretcher.
I also made plenty of shots of the wrecked car.
When a good story came over the air, he could be downstairs and on his way in seconds.
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