About This Item

  • Call NumberCRIM_0105
  • TitleDeadly arsenal
  • SummaryCaption: "Deadly arsenal--Here are hatchet, wrenches, knives, sawed-off pool cue, lead pipe, and heavy-buckled belts collected from teenagers by police as they headed off inter-gang battles last night in Bedford Stuyvesant section. Listing weapons is patrolman William McInerney who nabbed six of the youths ."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Jan.25, 1955; "Brooklyn Eagle;" "Photo by Jack Murray." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorMurray, Jack
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectGangs -- New York (State) -- New York ; Police -- New York (State) -- New York ; Weapons -- 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: Juvenile delinquency