About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0741
  • TitleMystery plunge
  • SummaryCaption: "Mystery plunge--This picture was taken shortly after Abe Reles, key witness in the 'prefect murder case' against Albert Anastasia, plunged to death from Half Moon Hotel room [in Coney Island on November 12, 1941] where he was being guarded. ..."
  • Date1941
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 9 x 6 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteCropped and retouched. On verso: date stamped: Mar. 18, 1941; "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectReles, Abe, 1906-1941 ; Crime scenes -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hotels -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (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: Reles, Abe