Title: | Weeding out operation |
Description: | Caption: "Weeding out operation--Police Inspector Peter Terranova, commanding officer of the narcotics squad, flanked by Anthony Cristiano, a Department of Sanitation workman, and Frank Creta, general inspector of the department, exhibit part of a haul of more than 100 pounds of marijuana found growing at 82 Butler St. the dope weed was burned in department incinerators." |
Date: | 1953 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Cobble Hill (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
Creator: | Geller, Jules. |
More Details: |
Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Aug. 22, 1953; "Brooklyn Eagle;" Photography by Jules Geller." Title from caption on verso. |
Collection: | Crime [4]
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Subject: |
Marijuana [5] Police [6] Sanitation workers [7] |
Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. Portraits. |
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 0009 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/aaaa532b64eea71abb1acbae1fa28e0c&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Cobble+Hill+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Crime
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/m/Marijuana
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Police
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/s/Sanitation workers