About This Item

  • Call NumberCRIM_0164
  • Title[Swastikas on doors of synagogue]
  • SummaryMan with trench coat and flashlight standing before two doors defaced with swastikas. Caption: "Tony Parent examines the swastikas splashed in black paint on doors of the synagogue of Congregation Ahavath Chessed, 7902 15th Ave. some time during last night. Police of Bath Beach Precinct were keeping a watchful eye on the temple today and hunting the swastika-painters. . . ."
  • Date1937
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date inscribed: March 18/38; "Eagle staff photo" on caption. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectVandalism -- New York (State) -- New York ; Swastikas -- New York (State) -- New York ; Synagogues -- New York (State) -- New York ; Crime -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Dyker Heights (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: Vandalism