Morgue Files of the 20th Centurymorgue file (môrg fīl) - collection of paper folders containing old files and notes kept by criminal investigators, as well as old article clippings kept by newspaper reporters, in case they became of later use as a quick reference collection
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Sex Deranged Maniac at Large at the Anco
(Alfred Eisenstaedt. 1944?)
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42nd Street, NYC, Photo by Benn Mitchell, 1949
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John Garfield and Hazel Brooks for Body and Soul, 1947
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Police shoot tear gas into The Beacon cafe during a robbery attempt, Inglewood, California, 1957
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Man wanted for Georgia Bank robbery -- captured, 1952
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Bank robbery note, 1965
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Frankie Vallerino and Bert Colima II fight, Hollywood, California February 21, 1938
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Art Shay Nelson Algren Playing Cards with Friends, Including William Hackett, the Original “Man With the Golden Arm,” Chicago 1949
“Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.” Nelson Algren, “Chicago: City on the Make” 1951
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Gordon Coster Striking Workers, Chicago 1939
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Chicago (Afternoon Game at Table 2), Photo by Wayne Miller, 1946-48
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Jack Delano. In the waiting room of the Union Station, Chicago, Illinois, 1943
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