About This Item


  • Call NumberCRIM_0002
  • TitleThis is it
  • SummaryCaption: "This is it--If you spot these leaves in your backyard, growing on a tall, erect stalk, you have a budding marijuana crop on tap and the Sanitation Department would like to know about it."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Jun[e] 24, 1951; "Brooklyn Eagle." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectMarijuana -- 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: Drugs: Marijuana