Weegee (1899 - 1968)

Portfolio of forty-five silver prints. Each print with the Weegee collection blindstamp in the lower right margin, and 'Credit Photo by Weegee the Famous' and 'Print: Kaplan' stamps on the reverse and numbered in pencil conforming to the list of contents. With a printed title page, contents page and foreword. Cased in a grey cloth portfolio bearing a version of the 'Weegee the Famous' stamp on the cover. Ed. 2/22 + 6 Hors Serie, ed. by Louis Stettner and Wilma Wilcox.

Side Gallery, Newcastle

The prints in very good condition over all. With undulation to the edges of the sheets in the margins away from the image and some corners and edges slightly bumped. Occasional slight surface scratches only visible in raking light. A few light handling creases to some of the prints mainly in the margins. Three prints with small losses of emulsion along the left edges of the sheets, these are in the margins away from the image. Title page, list of photographs and foreword clean and crisp. One print with a small discoloured half circle at the centre of the upper edge in the margin away from the image. The portfolio slightly soiled and the corners slightly bumped.
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U.S. Hotel
Performers at Sammy's-on-the-Bowery, 1944-45
Bagel Man, Second Avenue, 1940
Crowd at Coney Island, July 28, 1940
Police Helping Wife of Murdered Man, 1938
Lovers on Park Bench
Peddler with Dangling Dry Goods
10 Shots, 10 Cent
Passage to Pennsylvania Hotel
Human Cannon Ball, 1952
Religious Men in Restaurant, 1943
Lovers with 3-D Glasses at the Palace Theatre (Infrared), 1943
Two Young Girls at the Palace Theatre (Infrared), 1943
Summer, The Lower East Side, 1937
Mother and Baby in front of Yiddish Theatre
Woman with Violin Rescued from Fire
Clothing Has Been Saved, 1945
Tenement Fire, Harlem 1942. Mother and daughter looking to where another daughter and her baby are trapped.
Line-Up for Night Court
Mother and Child through Broken Window, Harlem, 1939
Soldiers in front of Metropolitan Opera, 1943
Rehearsal, Metropolitan Opera, 1943
Corpse with Revolver, 1940
Top Hats at the Opera, 1943
The Critic, 1943. Mrs. Cavanaugh and friend entering the opera.
Alfred Stieglitz
Booked on Suspicion of Killing a Policeman, 1939
Teen-age Boy Arrested for Strangling a Little Girl, 1944
Burlesque Queen, Transvestite in Paddy Wagon, 1941
Joy of Living, Accident on 42^nd Street and 3^rd Avenue, 1946
Easter Sunday in Harlem, 1940
Simply Add Boiling Water
Two Men Covering Faces in Police Wagon
Murdered While Playing Bocci, 1938
Under the Third Avenue El, 1938
Heatspell, 1938
Transvestite in Fur Coat leaving Paddy Wagon
Sleeping Circus People, Madison Square Garden, 1944
Mending, Coney Island, 1940
The Ambulance Will Come, 1940
Last Rites
Vegetable Peddler with Horse, 1946
Little Italy, War Rally
Woman with Broken Umbrella
New Year's Eve at Sammy's-on-the-Bowery, 1943