About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0985
  • TitleWhere two men died
  • SummarySection of business district: apartment houses (three people are looking out of third floor windows) with shops on ground level, Red Cross truck, ambulance and police car in foreground. Caption: "Where two men died--Crowds are held back from Fey's Sanitary Chinese Laundry Shop, 237 De Kalb Ave., after the proprietor was shot to death. His assailant, also Chinese, fatally slashed his own throat with a meat cleaver." Note: there is another longer clipping also on verso.
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Mar. 19, 1950. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectAmbulances ; Business districts ; Crime scenes ; Crowds ; Police vehicles ; Trucks
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (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: Fort Greene: DeKalb Avenue