About This Item

  • Call NumberCRIM_0157
  • TitleCamera-shy
  • SummaryFour adolescent boys, each accompanied by policeman, descending staircase and hiding their faces with handkerchiefs. Caption: "CAMERA-SHY: Manacled to Correction Department guards, kill-for-thrill teenagers dodge photographers as they descend from detention pen in Central Courts Building to stand trial in County Court. Bottom to top are Jack Koslow, Robert Trachtenberg, Melvin Mittman and Jerome Lieberman."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Nov. 15, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; "Eagle photo by Jules Geller." Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorGeller, Jules
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectTeenage boys -- New York (State) -- New York ; Police -- New York (State) -- New York ; Murder -- New York (State) -- New York ; Crime -- 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: Teenagers: Thrill Kill