| Title: | How they got out |
| Description: | Posed photograph of African American woman (top) and Caucasian man (bottom) emerging with baseball bats from a broken door. Caption: "HOW THEY GOT OUT: Monroe Meyerson, 21, and Mrs. Arline Tompkins, 26, demonstrate how, with baseball bats, they broke out of upstairs storage room at Meyerson home, 3531 Bedford Ave., in which they had been locked by robbers who helped themselves to furs and jewels." |
| Date: | 1952 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Midwood (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
| Creator: | Brooklyn eagle. |
| More Details: |
Title from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Feb. 10, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks. |
| Collection: | Crime [4]
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| Subject: |
Baseball bats [5] Robbery [6] Crime [7] |
| 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 0143 |