Category: News stories
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Joseph Papin – Leona Helmsley Trial
Leona Helmsley Trial, 1989, Joseph Papin Courtroom Collection, Library of Congress #PR 13 CN 2015.128.1690 The following is from the article, ‘Her Majesty,’ by Michael Schulman (The New Yorker, May 23, 2016): “Signs have pointed to a comeback for [the story of] another eighties billionaire supervillain: Leona Helmsley. The hotel empress, whose iron-fisted management style…
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Joseph Papin – NYC prison drawings – The Tombs
“The ‘Time Bomb’ On Centre Street So Warden Albert Glick describes The Tombs, a prison ticking away with the volatile ills of overcrowding, neglect, a lethargic system of justice and the frustrations and hopelessness of men penned up.” (Article by Donald Flynn, Drawings by Joseph Papin, Sunday News, January 23, 1972). “The first thing that…
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Figuring out Joseph Papin’s series of drawings of the 1958 Juno I launch of satellite Explorer I
I have spent a good bit of time over the last week trying to identify the following Joseph Papin drawings. Sara Duke, Curator of Popular and Applied Graphic Art in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress, and the Curator who facilitated our family’s donation of Joseph Papin’s courtroom drawings to the…
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Happy Earth Day! – Joseph Papin on the Scene – 1972 Walk for Mankind
Daily News, May 15, 1972, Monmouth Walk for Mankind “News drawing by Staff Artist Joseph Papin catches the spirit of yesterday’s Walk for Mankind. “More than 1,800 marchers participated in a 21 mile Walk for Mankind in Monmouth County yesterday and raised $40,000 for Project Concern, an organization that provides medical care, food and aid…
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The Villager, The Village Sun and the Daily News
Lincoln Anderson, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The Village Sun, wrote an article that was published in The Village Sun on August 14, 2020 on the closing of the Daily News newsroom. Entitled “Extra! … is what Daily News considers its newsroom during pandemic” the article used the following drawings that Joseph Papin had done of…