About This Item

  • Title[Fey's Sanitary Chinese Laundry]
  • Call NumberNEIG_0987
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryInterior room of Fey's Sanitary Chinese Laundry at 237 DeKalb Avenue with three shelves of packaged laundry, suspended lamp on left and large string ball on right, counter with one loose black garment and several piles of folded laundry, man wearing coat and fedora hat with back to camera in center, small picture and tie on wall and portion of sewing machine on far right, and person and portion of automobile seen through doorway, with suspended lamp above, in background. Location was scene of homicide/suicide on March 18 (?), 1950.
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1950. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectCrime scenes ; Laundries ; Laundry
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (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.