About This Item
- Call NumberPORT_0173
- TitleLouis Capone
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (PORT 0174), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two images, in different sizes, of Louis Capone. Caption (0173): "Louis Capone as he was sentenced to death today in County Court. He was convicted early Sunday along with Louis (Lepke) Buchalter and Emanuel (Mendy) We[iss] for the murder of Joseph Rosen in 1936." Image includes two other unidentified men; the man on the right is wearing a badge. 0174 shows Capone sitting in a chair holding a newspaper.
- Date1940, 1944
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
- NoteTitle from typed caption on verso.
- SubjectBuchalter, Louis, 1897-1944 ; Capone, Louis, 1896-1944 ; Weiss, Emanuel, 1906-1944 ; 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: Capone, Louis