About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0015
  • TitleJoe Adonis
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (PORT 0020), some of which may also be described in this new record; Caption (0015): "Brooklyn's long-sought fugitive, Joe Adonis, surrendered to Assistant Attorney General Amen today. He is shown, handkerchief to face, arriving at Poplar St. police station with a detective." 0020: "Who is Joe Adonis, the mysterious gangland figure who, according to General Sessions Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, Republican-Liberal candidate for mayor, rules the Democratic party in Brooklyn?" Image shows him standing with partially closed eyes and left hand raised.
  • Date1940, 1945
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: 0015: May 9, 1940; 0020: Oct. 19, 1945. Title from captions on versos.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectAdonis, Joe ; Criminals -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Portraits: Adonis, Joe