About This Item

  • Call NumberCRIM_0093
  • TitleCocktail party balked
  • SummaryCaption: "Cocktail party balked--Detective Michael Walsh of Brooklyn West Youth Squad examines homemade 'Molotov cocktails'--gasoline-filled bottles with gas-saturated wicks--which were among 20 seized yesterday by police who broke up scheduled teenage gang war in Red Hook."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteRetouched. Stamped on verso: date: Jun[e] 7, 1953; "Brooklyn Eagle;" "Kruh." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorKruh, Johnny
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBottles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Gangs -- New York (State) -- New York ; Police -- New York (State) -- New York ; Weapons -- 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