Makeshift weapons

Makeshift weapons
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Title: Makeshift weapons
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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
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