About This Item

  • TitleBomb threat
  • Call NumberEAGL_0010
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (EAGL 0009), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views of a postal card addressed to: "Schroth, Brooklyn Eagle, 24 Johnson St., Brooklyn, N. Y." 0009 shows front of card with address and postmark, Mar. 17, 1952; recto is an enlargement; 0010 shows typed message on back of card, "Get that crap off those trucks or else the bomb goes off at 4:30 today," enlarged on recto, and actual size on verso with caption: "Bomb threat--Photograph shows threatening postcard received by Brooklyn Eagle because its trucks beat messagfe urging public to help find Arnold Schuster's killer."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteStamped on verso: date: Mar. 18, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso of 0010.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn eagle ; Postcards -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.