Taking Becker to Sing Sing (LOC)

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Taking Becker to Sing Sing

1912 Oct. 30.

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
 Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Date from similar Bain negative: LC-B2-2438-3.
Photo shows "Charles Becker, the ex-Police Lieutenant and convicted murderer of Herman Rosenthal, who will be sentenced to death this morning by Justice Goff" on way to Sing Sing prison, Ossining, New York. (Source: New York Times, Oct. 30, 1912, and Flickr Commons project, 2008)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.10748

Call Number: LC-B2- 2437-15

Comments and faves

  1. yeknod (56 months ago | reply)

    Charles Becker was the first American police officer to receive the death penalty for murder. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Becker

  2. Dill Pixels (56 months ago | reply)

    A dubious debut.

  3. memos to the future (56 months ago | reply)

    he's the only NYPD officer to ever have been executed, too.

    I found this via a book review on the british guardian website:
    books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2270898, 00.html

    sounds like becker had a very interesting life.

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