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237 Dekalb Avenue
\[Fey's Sanitary Chinese Laundry] Interior room of Fey's Sanitary Chinese Laundry at 237 DeKalb Avenue with three shelves of packaged laundry, suspended lamp on left and large string ball on right, counter with one loose black garment and several piles of folded laundry, man wearing coat and fedora hat with back to camera in center, small picture and tie on wall and portion of sewing machine on far right, and person and portion of automobile seen through doorway, with suspended lamp above, in background. Location was scene of homicide/suicide on March 18 (?), 1950.
237 Dekalb Avenue
\[237 DeKalb Avenue] Closeup of entrance to Fey's Sanitary Chinese Laundry at 237 Dekalb Avenue with young man wearing overcoat and fedora and pile of white, full laundry bags in doorway, portion of shop on each side and apartment houses above, and portion of police car in foreground. Location was scene of homicide/suicide on March 18 (?), 1950 (see NEIG 0985).
237 Dekalb Avenue
Where two men died Section of business district: apartment houses (three people are looking out of third floor windows) with shops on ground level, Red Cross truck, ambulance and police car in foreground. Caption: "Where two men died--Crowds are held back from Fey's Sanitary Chinese Laundry Shop, 237 De Kalb Ave., after the proprietor was shot to death. His assailant, also Chinese, fatally slashed his own throat with a meat cleaver." Note: there is another longer clipping also on verso.
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