Mob scene

Mob scene
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Title: Mob scene
Description:

Men in suits (some looking into camera) standing in hallway of former courthouse (since demolished) on Fulton and Joralemon Streets. Caption: "Mob Scene: Corridor outside Brooklyn Supreme Court's Trial Term Part 1 is thronged with lawyers as backlog of 10,000 personal injury cases is disposed of in calendar call ordered by Appellate Division."

Date: 1953
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Brooklyn eagle.
More Details: Title from caption on verso.
On verso: date stamped: Nov. 18, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
Retouched.
Collection: Government
Subject: Lawyers
Courthouses
Conduct of court proceedings
Lost architecture
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: GOVT 0198