About This Item

  • TitleLooking over a complaint
  • Call NumberGOVT_0028
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (GOVT 0024), some of which may also be described in this new record; Four men in courtroom at 4th Avenue and 43rd Street in Sunset Park (not Bay Ridge); judge reaching for document. Images identical accept for cropping marks on 0028. Caption on verso of 0028: "LOOKING OVER A COMPLAINT: Magistrate Charles Solomon, sitting in Bay Ridge Court, takes a complaint from Fred Irwin, standing, the 'bridge man.' At extreme left is Stephen J. Collins, the court fingerprint expert, and in the clerk's chair is Chief Clerk John J. Allen."
  • Date1945
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso of 0028. On verso of 0028: date stamped: Jun. 3, 1945; "Eagle Staff photo." 0028 retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCourthouses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Judges -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Sunset Park (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.