About This Item

  • Call NumberCRIM_0143
  • TitleHow they got out
  • SummaryPosed photograph of African American woman (top) and Caucasian man (bottom) emerging with baseball bats from a broken door. Caption: "HOW THEY GOT OUT: Monroe Meyerson, 21, and Mrs. Arline Tompkins, 26, demonstrate how, with baseball bats, they broke out of upstairs storage room at Meyerson home, 3531 Bedford Ave., in which they had been locked by robbers who helped themselves to furs and jewels."
  • Date1952
  • 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: Feb. 10, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBaseball bats -- New York (State) -- New York ; Robbery -- New York (State) -- New York ; Crime -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Midwood (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: Robbery: Residences