About This Item

  • TitleStudy in savagery
  • Call NumberCRIM_0159
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryTwo adolescent boys, arrested for "thrill kill" of a homeless man in Williamsburg, seated at table in precinct house. Caption: "STUDY IN SAVAGERY: Manacled to chairs in Bedford Ave. stationhouse, Melvin Mittman and Jack Koslow present picture of contrast as their eyes mirror personalities. Mittman, 'muscle' of the gang, is calm, sullen, untalkative. Koslow, 'brains' of the group, is haughty, volatile and, at this point, confused."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Aug. 19, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; "Eagle photo." Retouched ; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectTeenage boys -- New York (State) -- New York ; Handcuffs -- New York (State) -- New York ; Murder -- New York (State) -- New York ; Crime -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.