| 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 |