About This Item

  • Call NumberCRIM_0148
  • TitleCeiling-hider captured
  • SummaryPoliceman at top helping adolescent boy (face hidden) down ladder; one other policeman and reaching hands partly visible at bottom. Caption: "CEILING-HIDER CAPTURED: Patrolman Edward Hoffmann pulls 15-year-old William Butler through a 2-foot-square hole in ceiling at 273 Monroe St. Right, the boy, hiding for fear of punishment for playing hookey to see Dodgers play, is comforted by another policeman [not shown]."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 9 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: May 14, 1954; "Eagle photos by Lambert."
  • CreatorLambert, Al
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectTeenage boys -- New York (State) -- New York ; Police -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (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