About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0175
  • TitleChief mourner
  • SummaryCaption: "Chief mourner--Mrs. Sophie Capone, in funeral black and hiding her face from observers, leaving church in Coney [Island] after services for her husband, Louis Capone." Image also includes policeman in right foreground.
  • Date1944
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Mar. 9, 1944. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPolice -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (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: Capone, Louis