Press Photos Dillingers Death

[joseph12297]

These were stated to be OLD :)press photos from 34, about 8x10 inches.

Any insight welcome. http://www.machinegunboards.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/#EMO_DIR#/smile.png

 

Thanks

Edited April 4, 2013 by joseph12297

[OCM]

You bet-

Photo on the left is the display at the FBI, of various Dillinger weapons. ( Thompson, Winchester 351, Colt Mini Machine Pistol, etc.) and above, barely visible, a placard showing FBI Agents that have been killed in the line of duty. Can't remember date, I think 1935.

Photo at right, is Dillinger body at the Cook County Morgue in Chicago, just after it was brought in. Agents are taking fingerprints on the body. 1934

 

Usually press photos have a typed bit of copy on the back, about the picture and credits ( Wide World, Chicago Tribune) . They sent these out on the news wires to subscribers. The term opriginal should be replaced with old. Fairly common in the Dillinger collecting/historical world.

[joseph12297]

Cool

Old it is

Thanks so much!!!

[OCM]

Yep- I was once told many, many years ago, by a news photographer, the only true original is the negative. Everything else is just a copy of the original, in a positive print. I guess that's correct. ?

 

Sandy

[nevadablue]

I can't see the pictures. Any ideas?

[OCM]

Maybe he took them off to save picture space, I do that all the time. ???