12 June

1899 – Arthur Fellig, Ukrainian-American photographer, known by his pseudonym Weegee.

Above: Children playing in water sprayed from open fire hydrant, Upper West Side, New York, c.1945

Also, born in 1827, Swiss author Johanna Spyri.

God certainly knows of some happiness for us which He is going to bring out of the trouble, only we must have patience and not run away. And then all at once something happens and we see clearly ourselves that God has had some good thought in His mind all along; but because we cannot see things beforehand, and only know how dreadfully miserable we are, we think it is always going to be so.

—From Spyri’s 1880 novel, Heidi.

Previously on June 12, Egon Schiele and Anne Frank.