Iconic Newsday photos: Then and Now

Robert Shafran, left, and Eddy Galland, center, met at upstate... — Robert Shafran, left, and Eddy Galland, center, met at upstate Sullivan County Community College, 19 years after they were separated at birth. Subsequent stories about the reunion alerted the third triplet, David Kellman. Credit: Newsday / Walter Del Toro

October 2, 2014

We revisited some of Newsday’s most iconic photos through the decades to see what happened to the people who captured our imaginations.

Our list so far includes Christine Jorgensen, one of the first transgender women to come out publicly, the triplets who were separated at birth and reunited 19 years later, and the first woman cadet at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point.

Their stories are inspiring and tragic, and sometimes both.

We will be adding to this collection, and no doubt will be asking for your help finding people who were in some of the photos that helped to define Long Island’s story.

(Mobile users: Click on the link above to see the photo collection)