About This Item


  • Title[Men entering Special Sessions courtroom]
  • Call NumberGOVT_0152
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (GOVT 0156, GOVT 0160), some of which may also be described in this new record; Men crowding into courtroom, probably in downtown Brooklyn; signs on windows of doors read "COURT OF SPECIAL SESSIONS"; 0152 shows four men jostling through doors, with African American man in fedora hat at left; 0156 shows five men just inside doors, with man at center in pinstrip suite and hands in pockets; 0160 shows five men, with man at right wearing pencil-thin mustache and looking up.
  • Date[1948]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso of 0160: date inscribed: 1948.
  • SubjectCourthouses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Conduct of court proceedings -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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.