About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0116
  • TitleLouis Buchalter
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (PORT 0118), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views, in different sizes, of Brooklyn gangster Louis (Lepke) Buchalter. 0116 shows him being sentenced for the murder of Brooklyn storekeeper Jopseph Rosen in 1936. 0118 shows him riding, with face covered, in vehicle en route to Sing Sing Prison.
  • Date1941, 1944
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • Note0116: 6 x 6 in.; cropped and retouched. Title from inscription on verso of 0118.
  • SubjectBuchalter, Louis, 1897-1944 ; 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: Buchalter, Louis (Lepke): Court