Makeshift weapons
Title: | Makeshift weapons |
Description: | Caption: "Makeshift weapons like these are used in many instances by teenage criminals. The 'gun' shown on top is an imitation that can be bought by mail at a cost of one dollar. Pictured below it is a 'homemade' pistol taken from a juvenile delinquent. What looks like the hammer is really a door hook ." |
Date: | 1948 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
More Details: |
Date stamped on verso: Apr. 29, 1948. Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Title from caption on verso. |
Collection: | Crime
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Subject: |
Firearms Pistols |
Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. |
Rights: | Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library. |
ID: | CRIM 0018 |