Title: | Makeshift weapons |
Description: | Caption: "Makeshift weapons like these are used in many instances by teenage criminals. The 'gun' shown on top is an imitation that can be bought by mail at a cost of one dollar. Pictured below it is a 'homemade' pistol taken from a juvenile delinquent. What looks like the hammer is really a door hook ." |
Date: | 1948 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] |
More Details: |
Date stamped on verso: Apr. 29, 1948. Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Title from caption on verso. |
Collection: | Crime [3]
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Subject: |
Firearms [4] Pistols [5] |
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 0018 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/337c3a8e2ff18c39b74fd596722dcb62&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Crime
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/f/Firearms
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Pistols