Death-dealing toys

Death-dealing toys
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Title: Death-dealing toys
Description:

Caption: "Death-dealing toys--These guns are all homemade, have figured in a Brooklyn murder and other crimes, and are in the possession of the office of District Miles F. McDonald. The regular 'zip' gun, center, was converted from a toy airplane launcher. On right is a lethal weapon made of two blocks of wood, a door hook, and a rubber band. At the left are converted cowboy and cap pistol guns, which frequently are advertised for sale in comic books."

Date: 1949
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Brooklyn eagle.
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched.
On verso: date stamped: Mar. 6, 1949; on caption: "Eagle staff photo."
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Crime
Subject: Firearms
Pistols
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library.
ID: CRIM 0024