Police-seized contraband

Police-seized contraband
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Title: Police-seized contraband
Description:

Caption: "The tug Manhattan load to the gunwales with slot machines, pinball games, guns of all sorts, etc., as it pulled out of Pier 4 at the Battery to dump police-seized contraband into the ocean."

Date: 1937
Location: Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)
New York (N.Y.)
More Details: Date stamped on verso: Aug. 5/37.
Large piece missing from lower left.
Retouched.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Crime
Subject: Firearms
Gambling and crime
Tugboats
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 0038