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Original WEEGEE Smoker Babe photograph | USA #896915

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Original WEEGEE Smoker Babe photograph | USA #896915
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Bohemian smoker babe, early 1960s
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Vintage gelatin silver print

8 X 10 inches (20 x 25 cm)

Lower left border inscribed in ballpoint pen "Tyke"

Stamped recto "Please credit Weegee from Photo Representatives"

In typical Weegee fashion there is some damage to upper part of photo, that is easily matted out, or leave as is. Small damage cropped from image.
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This one item is from an important group of photographs and related materials from the estate of photographer Wilma Wilcox, girlfriend companion of Usher (Arthur) Fellig, popularly known as WEEGEE The Famous.
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Weegee was born June 12, 1899, in Austria, under the name Usher Fellig. At the age of ten, Weegee with his mother and three brothers, finally arrived to America. At Ellis Island, Weegee's name was changed from Usher to Arthur.
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Weegee got his big break working for Acme Newspictures when he was 24. Occasionally, when all the other Acme photographers were busy or sleeping, he would get to go out at night and take pictures of emergencies. The girls around Acme gave him the name 'Weegee' after the board game because he always seemed to know where to be when a story broke.
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Weegee worked on his own as a free-lance photographer for the next ten years. He started to work out of Manhattan Police Headquarters; he would arrive around midnight and check the Teletype machine to see if any stories had broke. After a few years he decided he didn't want to wait for the news to come over the Teletype. He bought ...
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#: 06_082</td>
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<tr><td>Condition:Very good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1960s</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:USA</td></tr>

<tr><td>Height:10</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:8</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Original WEEGEE Smoker Babe photograph | USA</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York</td></tr>
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