Title: | Ceiling-hider captured |
Description: | Policeman at top helping adolescent boy (face hidden) down ladder; one other policeman and reaching hands partly visible at bottom. Caption: "CEILING-HIDER CAPTURED: Patrolman Edward Hoffmann pulls 15-year-old William Butler through a 2-foot-square hole in ceiling at 273 Monroe St. Right, the boy, hiding for fear of punishment for playing hookey to see Dodgers play, is comforted by another policeman [not shown]." |
Date: | 1954 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
Creator: | Lambert, Al. |
More Details: |
Title from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: May 14, 1954; "Eagle photos by Lambert." |
Collection: | Crime [4]
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Subject: |
Teenage boys [5] Police [6] |
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 0148 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/3bb3a2c3e41d409ffba3d415f3fa5e0c&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Bedford-Stuyvesant+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Crime
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/t/Teenage boys
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Police