Victim

Victim
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Title: Victim
Description:

Adolescent boy with heavily bandaged nose and face posing for picture before wall-papered wall. Caption: "VICTIM: Iran Polcyger, 15, of 9 Murdock Court in the Beachhaven housing development, shows bandaged face after beating given him and four other youths by teen-age gang from outside section."
Date: 1952
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Brighton Beach (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: McNamara, C. E.
More Details: Title from caption on verso.
On verso: date stamped: Jan. 13, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp.
Collection: Crime
Subject: Teenage boys
Mugging victims
Bandages and bandaging
Crime
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 0153