portrait of this blog's author - by Stephen Blackman 2008

Monday, January 09, 2017

NOTES from found photos - an occasional series



New York, 1931: actress Alice Granville shows off two bullet holes in her arm at Roosevelt hospital after she was shot by her hitman husband, lieutenant of Dutch Schultz, Pete Donahue, in 1931. The mob moll said Donahue shot her at a nightclub party to prove his affection - photo Joseph Costa

self harm has often a perverse desire to display scars and injuries like medals or proof of the passion that one being has held for another - AS

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