[Rifles to be discarded]

[Rifles to be discarded]
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Title: [Rifles to be discarded]
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Caption: "... Deputy Commissioner Martin Meany and Police Commissioner Valentine ... accompanied the tug to sea." Image shows men standing on a tugboat at an unknown waterfront location with Meany holding a cache of rifles, presumably seized in a crime-related gambling operation.

Date: 1937
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Cropped and retouched.
Date inscribed on verso: Aug. 5/37.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collection: Crime
Subject: Gambling and crime
Rifles
Waterfronts
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 0042