About This Item


  • TitleConfiscated machine guns and rifles
  • Call NumberCRIM_0022
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Mayor LaGuardia promised to treat gangsters and racketeers just as energetically as he helped toss the implements of their trade into the briny deep. [Photo] shows police with confiscated machine guns and rifles."
  • Date1935
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteCropped and retouched. Date inscribed on verso: June 9/35. Title from caption on verso.
  • SubjectMachine guns -- New York (State) -- New York ; Police -- New York (State) -- New York ; Rifles -- 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.