Original 1947 AP Wirephoto showing four Pittsburgh boys smiling after surviving a harrowing trip through a mile-long, storm-swollen sewer. The original AP caption identifies them, left to right, as Bill Dorritty, 14; Tommy Catone, 15; Jack Weisman, 16; and Donald McWilliams, 16. The boys are shown with bandaged knees following the ordeal, which the caption bluntly describes as leaving them "happy to be alive." Photograph and separate original AP caption are mounted together on black archival paper with period tape and corner mounts. Overall size approximately 7½ x 8¾ inches, with expected age and newsroom/archive handling wear. Came from the archive of a Pittsburgh area newspaper.
