About This Item

  • Call NumberCRIM_0089
  • TitleDog tag
  • SummaryCaption: "Dog tag--Rounded up 'warriors' of teenage Hawks gang carried membership cards bearing, at bottom, motto, 'Til death do we part.' It may be ungrammatical, but police said the sentiment is all too real."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks;. Stamped on verso: date: Mar. 11, 1954; "Brooklyn Eagle." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectGang members -- New York (State) -- New York ; Gangs -- 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: Gangs