Q1
Find the pictures on the web of the day the police broke into the real Homer and Langley’s house on Fifth Avenue and the sequence of photos of the removal of its contents. Describe the crowd that we see in these photos. As an outsider looking in, consider how the house and the brothers were viewed by those New Yorkers at the time. Is this how Doctorow views Homer and Langley?
Try this:
Search in Google Images or other search engines for “collyer brothers” or “homer and langley” to find a variety of photographs from the 1940s. Share the images that you find with us here.
For a contemporary perspective on the Collyer Brothers and hoarding, check out this recent article from the NY Times Magazine.
‘Underneath Every Hoarder Is a Normal Person Waiting to Be Dug Out’
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/magazine/exploring-the-landscapes-of-other-peoples-trash.html?_r=1&ref=magazine
If we are going to use another website, such as the one in the comment above this one, would we just attach a bibliography with MLA citation to our paper?
Yes, that would be fine.
This is a great list of pictures for the actual recovery process. You can ignore the text mostly, but it has a few pictures I didn’t find anywhere else.
http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f226/collyer-brothers-30036/