About This Item
- Call NumberPORT_0015
- TitleJoe Adonis
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (PORT 0020), some of which may also be described in this new record; Caption (0015): "Brooklyn's long-sought fugitive, Joe Adonis, surrendered to Assistant Attorney General Amen today. He is shown, handkerchief to face, arriving at Poplar St. police station with a detective." 0020: "Who is Joe Adonis, the mysterious gangland figure who, according to General Sessions Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, Republican-Liberal candidate for mayor, rules the Democratic party in Brooklyn?" Image shows him standing with partially closed eyes and left hand raised.
- Date1940, 1945
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: 0015: May 9, 1940; 0020: Oct. 19, 1945. Title from captions on versos.
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectAdonis, Joe ; 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: Adonis, Joe