Photograph of William L. McKee taken 22 years before his suicide at age 63, New York, 1913

Title: Photograph of William L. McKee taken 22 years before his suicide at age 63, New York, 1913
Date Created: October 1913
Date: 1913-10
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Photograph appears with the article, "Ex-Banker Kills Self as Money and Work Go," Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug 1935: 1.
At age 63 the formerly successful banker William L. McKee took his own life in a public park by a self-inflicted gunshot wound through his heart. There were several notes written by McKee on the bench next to his body that contained a written account of his misery after living in poverty for several years.
A picture of a photograph of McKee in his younger days wearing a suit and coat with a bowler hat. He holds a cigar and looks directly at the camera with his other hand in his pocket. McKee's name and the date and location the photograph was taken (New York City October 17th, 1913) are written in ink at the top and bottom of the photograph.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 1862 - Wm L. McKee one-time affluent banker suicide in Pershing Square (Copy) [stamped:] Sep 4- 1935
Handwritten on negative: N.Y. City. Oct. 17-1913.
Text from newspaper caption: William L. McKee

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_8162
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dg090
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