About This Item

  • Call NumberCRIM_0144
  • TitleParty-goers on the wagon
  • SummaryNight photograph of policeman in right foreground holding open door of paddy wagon; several adolescent girls in paddy wagon, including smiling one at left. Caption: "PARTY-GOERS ON THE WAGON: Patrolman Alvin Nelson of Brooklyn Avenue Precinct directs traffic as teenage party-goers pile into paddy wagon for trip to station house, where they were charged with staging wild party and attacking cops."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsnight photographyphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Dec. 13, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Retouched.
  • CreatorIrving & Bob
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectTeenage girls -- New York (State) -- New York ; Police -- New York (State) -- New York ; Police vehicles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Crime -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Crown 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: Teenagers: General