About This Item

  • Call NumberEAGL_0513
  • TitleScene of holdup
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (EAGL 0516, EAGL 0517, EAGL 0514, EAGL 0515, EAGL 0512, EAGL 0518, EAGL 0519, EAGL 0521, EAGL 0520), some of which may also be described in this new record; Ten images of Brooklyn Eagle crime scene. Caption: "Scene of holdup--Reporters, detectives and policemen crowd around cashier's cage a few minutes after masked pair fled with $20,000 payroll from Brooklyn Eagle office this morning."
  • Date1947
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description10 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note0512 and 0520: 10 x 8 in. 0514: Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso of 0514: date stamped: Jan. 24, 1947; "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso of 0514.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCrime scenes -- New York (State) -- New York ; Robbery -- New York (State) -- New York ; Robbery investigation -- 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: Eagle: Robbery