About This Item

  • Call NumberCRIM_0042
  • Title[Rifles to be discarded]
  • SummaryCaption: "... Deputy Commissioner Martin Meany and Police Commissioner Valentine ... accompanied the tug to sea." Image shows men standing on a tugboat at an unknown waterfront location with Meany holding a cache of rifles, presumably seized in a crime-related gambling operation.
  • Date1937
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 6 x 6 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteCropped and retouched. Date inscribed on verso: Aug. 5/37. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectGambling and crime -- New York (State) -- New York ; Rifles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Waterfronts -- 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: Crime: Gambling: II