About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0745
  • TitleAbe Reles
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (PORT 0743), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two portraits, in different sizes, of Abe Reles, Brooklyn gangster, who plunged to his death from the Half Moon Hotel in Coney Island in 1941.
  • Date1940
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteCropped and retouched. Title from caption on verso of 0763.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectReles, Abe, 1906-1941 ; Criminals -- 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: Portraits: Reles, Abe