Description
PHOTOGRAPHY: WEEGEE (ARTHUR FELLIG) HANDWRITTEN LETTER SIGNED,
"Weegee", 2 pages back to back, 5.5 x 7, c. 1960's, on Mapleton
Hotel, Piccadilly Circus, London letterhead, to Wilma Wilcox, about working on
a film ("this is going to be a wonderful movie"), setting up his
photo lab in the hotel bathroom, publicity from American magazine
photographers. Comes with the original mailing envelope addressed by Weegee.
The envelope has some scotch tape on one side, otherwise both items are in fine
condition.
Weegee (1899-1968) was the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig a famous
Wilma Wilcox was a Quaker social worker who
Weegee lived with for over a decade before his death in 1968. She inherited his
entire archive of original prints and subsequently donated them to the
$495
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