Death on the Bowery
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Death on the Bowery

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Death on the Bowery

December 15, 1966
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 7 × 9 1/8 in. (17.8 × 23.2 cm)
Image: 6 3/8 × 8 7/16 in. (16.2 × 21.4 cm)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0354.0015
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied paper: C 3461 ( NY31) \ ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK \ CAUTION: USE CREDIT \ DEATH ON THE BOWERY \ THE BOWERY, HAVEN FOR NEW YORK'S \ DOWN-AND-OUT MEN, WAS COLD AND WET AT \ 5 A.M. WHEN A GIRL WALKING HER DOG CAME \ UPON A SHOELESS MAN FACE UP ON A SIDEWALK \ NEAR EAST HOUSTON ST. SHE AND THE DOG \ STOOD BESIDE THE MAN UNTIL A POLICE \ SQUAD CAR ARRIVED. IN FIVE MINUTES THE \ MAN WAS DEAD. A PASSER-BY TURNED TO LOOK. \ WORLD JOURNAL TRIBUNE PHOTOGRAPHER \ MEL FINKELSTEIN, CRUISING THE STREETS, \ HEARD A POLICE SUMMONS, RUSHED TO THE \ SCENE AND MADE THIS SERIES OF PICTURES. \ GM 530P 12/15/66 WJT 28 \ ROCH NH GRIT NR HFT HUD LON ROM PAR GER \ SS TOK TMC NSWK WW \ (NYC OUT) \ ONE OF A SERIES OF THREE PICTURES, SEE \ C-3460 AND C-3441
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