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WIRED
PHOTO
VINTAGE PRESS PHOTOS
FROM THE 20TH CENTURY
I . CR I M E & P U N I S H M E N T
KEITH DE LELLIS GALLERY
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THE ORIGIN OF WIRED PHOTO
The idea of the transmission of photographs over ordinary telephone circuits was conceived in the physical chemistry research
laboratories of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and experimental apparatus for its development was created in 1921. Within a
year, equipment had been constructed which would operate with a fair degree of dependability over the wire circuits, and efforts were
started to adapt the system to radio transmission. By the end of 1922 successful transmissions over radio channels had been made between
buildings of the institute. Several years of intensive research and experimentation followed, and in 1924 the first public demonstration
of its commercial possibilities was made by transmitting pictures acoustically over telephone lines at Garden City, Long Island, New York.
Shortly afterward a transmission was made from Rutherford, N.J., to offices in New York City. While the result demonstrated that
pictures could be successfully transmitted over ordinary telephone circuits, the received negatives were marred by telephone operator
interference, and at that time no assurance could be given that clear, uninterrupted telephone connections could be obtained for wire photo use.
Thereafter followed a three-year period of experimentation of radio channel transmission, and in 1928 and 1929 the system
was used for amateur picture broadcasting from stations WOR and WMCA, New York City. Approximately one thousand receiving sets
were built in this time, but their future was doomed by Federal restriction and the limited selectivity of the receiving sets of that period.
Thereafter development was aimed toward message transmission work, until 1934, when newspapers became interested in
transmitting pictures over systems employing leased wire circuits. Experimental models . . . were then made to demonstrate that picture
transmission was possible over ordinary telephone lines by utilizing the proper selection of carrier frequencies and speed and signal levels.
On November 21, 1934, [work began on] the construction of a complete transmitting and receiving set to be used in tests
from all parts of the country. This equipment was ready sixty days later and tests were begun immediately, the first one being from
Little Neck, Long Island, to the Times Annex in Manhattan over a telegraph circuit. Tests, in every instance successful, followed from
Albany, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and the valuable information for guidance in the final design of the equipment was
thereby obtained. After all possible adverse conditions had been overcome and the equipment proved itself capable of operating
over every type of telephone circuit, [this] system was offered as an instrument of newspaper coverage to the American press.
The feasibility of the . . . transmitters and receivers, and an extensive schedule of equipment production was launched to make
the service accessible to a large number of other newspapers. Transmitters were sent to all the . . . bureaus in the large cities of the United
States and staff photographers were instructed in their operation. Wired photo recorders, small, compact machines, were installed in
photographic darkrooms in newspapers at New York, Atlanta, Boston, Dayton, Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, Des Moines, St. Louis
and Philadelphia as quickly as they could be constructed . . . in New York. Within the short period of six months after the service was made
available a national organization of associate newspapers was in daily operation, transmitting and receiving the picture news of the country.
[Wired Photo, The New York Times Company, 1939]
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Wired photos played a major role in the rapid dissemination of news for much of the 20th century.
These humble 8 x 10 glossies could convey the most newsworthy events of the day: Some still etched into our collective
conscience or others forgotten like “yesterday’s news.”
The advent of digital media in the 21 century made these relics obsolete. The archives that newspaper offices had long maintained
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were transferred to digital files, a much improved method of storage and organization. As these originals were sold or discarded the
most interesting and iconic found their way onto the open market through galleries, dealers, and auction houses.
The photographs for sale in the accompanying catalog were some of the most interesting and well known feature stories
as well as some rediscoveries, which are perhaps being published for the first time.
1 “Photographers Waiting Outside Eastern Penitentiary for Al Capone”
(Movitone News)
c. 1930
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
6.75” x 9”
$650
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William Berkowitz
Jason Mazzeo
Abraham Katz
2 “Jewel Thief & Others:
Berkowitz, Mazzeo & Katz”
(Wienke - Detroit News)
1959
7.5” x 9.5”
$650
3 “Kisses Man She’s Accused of Killing”
(Associated Press Photo)
January 5,1936
7.5” x 10.75”
$750
4 James Earl Ray
(United Press International)
1968
5” x 8.5”
$750
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James Zegar
J.H. Scherping
Mike Ahearn
Louise Lund
Leo Anderson
Joe Young
Jack Walsh
Edward Powers
5 Cops Who Raided the Frankie
Pope Gambling Outfit
(Davis - Daily Times)
September 25,1931
8” x 10”
$750
6 “North Side, Frankie Pope
Tries to Evade Cameras”
(Fry - Chicago Daily Times)
1931
8” x 10”
$600
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Rocco De Grazzio
Tony Capezio
Laurenca Imburgia
Claude Maddox
7 “Group 2996: De Grazzio,
Capezio, Imburgia, Maddox”
(Anonymous)
June 26,1931
6.25” x 9.5”
$650
Dutch Schultz
James N. Noonan
Richard Davis
George J. Moore
H.W. Main
8 “Alias Dutch Schultz”
September 23, 1935
7.5” x 9.5”
$850
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Weapons Displayed at
Los Angeles Police Department
(Pacific & Atlantic Photos, Inc.)
c. 1930s
6.5” x 8.5”
$650
10 “Held at Bay”
(Ted Kell)
c. 1940
7.5” x 9.5”
$750
11 “Movieland’s No. 1 Murder Mystery
William Desmond Taylor
1936
3” x 8.5”
$650
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12 “Wergin, Haupt and Froehling, Nazi Saboteurs”
(Anonymous)
1942
8” x 9.5”
$650
13 “Accused Slayer Pulled a Gun on Questioning
Policeman” Miami International Airport
(Albert Coya)
1961
9.5” x 6.75”
$750
14 “Shooting Out the ‘Witness’ Wasn’t Enough”
Cleveland, Ohio
(United Press International)
1975
7.5” x 5.5”
$850
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“Child Murder West 47th St. Station House”
New York City
(Kelleher-Levine)
May 19, 1937
7.5” x 9.5”
16 “Esposito Brothers, the ‘Mad Dog’ Slayers”
Fifth Avenue, New York City
(Max Peter Haas)
September 24, 1941
7.5” x 9.52”
$1,250
17 “Whittaker Chambers, Communist Spy”
New York City
(ACME Newspictures)
December 7,1948
6.5” x 8.25”
$750
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New York City: Harlem Riots
“Prisoners Leaving Armory for Court”
(Weegee)
1943
7.25” x 9.25”
$4,500
19 “Dillinger Brought to Chicago by Plane”
(ACME Newspictures)
January 30, 1934
6.5” x 8.25”
$850
20 The Interrogation
(Hy Peskin)
c. 1940
7.5” x 9.5”
$1,250
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Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow
(International News Photos)
1934
7” x 3.5” & 5.75” x 2.5”
$1,500 for set of 2
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Anna Manson, Spy
“Queen of the Reds to be Deported:
Announced she was in favor of free speech,
free love, free thought and free everything.”
(Kadel & Herbert, NY)
1920
8.5” x 6.5”
$800
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May Hanson on Trial for Torch Death of Husband
(Acme Newspictures, Inc.)
1933
7.75” x 5.75”
$600
24
Female (Manson) Cultists Arrive to Plea
for Murdering Actress Sharon Tate
(UPI Telephoto)
December 22, 1969
7.75” x 8”
$800
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Ralph Burge Arrested in Recent
Finance Company Robberies
1947
8.5” x 5.5”
$400
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Boy Cries After His Father Was
Sentenced to One Year for Bomb Hoax
(John Quinn - UPI Telephoto)
1958
6.75” x 7.25”
$600
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Three Youths Admit Daring Daylight
Jewel Robbery of Designer Mollie Parnis
(United Press Telephoto)
1952
6.75” x 8.25”
$500
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Lucky Luciano Walks Between Two Guards
(New York Times)
c. 1936
8.25” x 6”
$650
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Davis Knight: Negro to Serve Five Years
In Prison for Marrying White Woman
Jones County, Mississippi
(Acme Telephoto)
1948
8.25” x 6.5”
$600
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The Keys of Death Row & the Electric Chair
Huntsville State Penitentiary, Texas
(Harold T. Waters - Associated Press Photo)
July 31, 1972
10.75” x 7.75”
$850
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Entrance to Death Chamber
Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York
1931
9.5” x 8”
$1,200
32 “Efficient lethal chamber [to] replace noose
in Oregon” Oregon Penitentiary, Salem
(ACME Newspictures)
January 17, 1938
8.75” x 7”
$850
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33 Gas Chamber at San Quentin Prison,
California
(UPI Telephoto)
October 21, 1959
7.25 x 9”
$650
34 “Death Room at ‘Miniature Alcatraz’”
State Prison, Illinois
(Chicago Daily Times)
January 3, 1947
8 x 10”
$750
35 “Magistrates Visit County Jail”
Cook County Jail, Illinois
(Larry Nocerino - Chicago Sun Times)
January 27, 1966
6.5” x 8.25”
$650
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36 “Mad Dog Killer (Morrelli)”
(Anonymous)
1949
9.25” x 6.5”
$1,250
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The Execution of Ruth Snyder
(Thomas Howard - New York Daily Times)
January 12, 1928
9.25” x 7.5”
$1,500
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KEITH DE LELLIS
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FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY
1045 MADISON AVENUE #3
NEW YORK, NY 10075
Keith de Lellis, Director
Kat Hughes, Design
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