About This Item

  • Call NumberCRIM_0137
  • TitleLots of loot
  • SummaryTable with display of stacks of money, briefcase, revolver, and bullets. Caption: "LOTS OF LOOT: Piled high on table in front of briefcase seized at LaGuardia Field from John Richard Bayless are bills totaling about $19,000, stolen yesterday from the Bank of America in Hollywood. FBI agents also found a revolver and cartridges on Bayless."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 5 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Feb. 26, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectMoney -- New York (State) -- New York ; Robbery -- New York (State) -- New York ; Crime -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Crime: Robbery: Muggings