About This Item

  • Call NumberCRIM_0153
  • TitleVictim
  • SummaryAdolescent boy with heavily bandaged nose and face posing for picture before wall-papered wall. Caption: "VICTIM: Iran Polcyger, 15, of 9 Murdock Court in the Beachhaven housing development, shows bandaged face after beating given him and four other youths by teen-age gang from outside section."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jan. 13, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp.
  • CreatorMcNamara, C. E.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectTeenage boys -- New York (State) -- New York ; Mugging victims -- New York (State) -- New York ; Bandages and bandaging -- New York (State) -- New York ; Crime -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrighton Beach (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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: Teenagers: General