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Weegee's Grisly Crime Scene Photos From 1930s and 1940s New York

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<p>Someone shot in front a bar in 1943.</p>

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<p>The body of Dominick Didato on Elizabeth Street, in 1936.</p>

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<p>Checking out a murder scene on the East Side in 1943.</p>

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<p>Hats in a pool room on Mulberry Street in 1943.</p>

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<p>Criminals used to be better looking. This is a line-up from 1941.</p>

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<p>Wax display showing the murder at Eden Museé, on Coney Island, in 1941.</p>

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<p>At first we thought the NYPD put the quotes around "MURDER," but this is actually from a Weegee installation at the Photo League in 1941.</p>

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<p>The body of a girl who was killed after jumping out of a car on Park Avenue in 1938.</p>

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<p>Bodies trampled to death during an excursion ship stampede in 1941.</p>

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<p>Victim of a hold up and murder on November 24th, 1941.</p>

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<p>Police search for clues around the body of a murder victim in 1940.</p>

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<p>Police recovering the body of Reception Hospital ambulance driver Morris Linker in the East River, 1943.</p>

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