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Empty Chair, Empty Life

Creator Daily news (New York, N.Y. : 1920)
Accession number 97.224.311.38 
Unique identifier MN122446 
Description Album compiled for the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for outstanding examples of news photography. | Photograph by John Duprey, published July 21, 1958. | A lonely old man, blind Charles Bueskes, 74, sits near his wife's empty rocker in the tiny apartment they'd shared, after police rescued him from his fourth-floor window at 316 E. 89th St. Patrolman Kevin Corbett (left) and John Sheehan removed him from ledge. Bueskes had lost his wife and was to enter a home for the aged. 
Dated 1959 
Object Type photograph album
Physical dimensions H: 17 in, W: 17 1/2 in 
Medium halftone, newsprint
File dimensions 8.8 in × 18.3 in at 300dpi
22.3 cm × 46.5 cm at 300dpi 
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Eighty-ninth Street (New York, N.Y.)
First Avenue (New York, N.Y.)
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Older people
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Second Avenue (Manhattan, New York, N.Y.)
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