About This Item

  • Call NumberCRIM_0038
  • TitlePolice-seized contraband
  • SummaryCaption: "The tug Manhattan load to the gunwales with slot machines, pinball games, guns of all sorts, etc., as it pulled out of Pier 4 at the Battery to dump police-seized contraband into the ocean."
  • Date1937
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteDate stamped on verso: Aug. 5/37. Large piece missing from lower left. Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectFirearms -- New York (State) -- New York ; Gambling and crime -- New York (State) -- New York ; Tugboats -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceHudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)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