Crime in New York 1850-1950
Sample Image
Collection Description
The Image Collection is the result of digitizing portions of two unique manuscript collections in our Special Collections. Photographs were digitized from The Papers of Lewis Lawes, Warden of Sing Sing Prison 1920-1941. Photographs and related documents were digitized from The Papers of Burton Turkus, who was Assistant District Attorney and Chief of the Homicide Division, Kings County (Brooklyn) 1940-1945.
Together the photographs and documents in this collection portray decades of criminal activity and careers in New York City with crime scene and investigation photographs, mug shots, rap sheets. Subjects covered include 1800s-1920s death-row prisoners at Sing Sing Prison and 1930s-40s Brooklyn crime and criminals, mainly those connected with the notorious Murder Inc. crime syndicate.
The Lloyd Sealy Library's The Trial Transcripts of the County of New York 1883 - 1927 collection includes the verbatim typewritten proceedings of 3,326 court cases, mainly criminal trials held in the Court of General Sessions, New York County.
This project has created a searchable digital index of all of these transcripts, which are on 425 reels of microfilm.
Together the photographs and documents in this collection portray decades of criminal activity and careers in New York City with crime scene and investigation photographs, mug shots, rap sheets. Subjects covered include 1800s-1920s death-row prisoners at Sing Sing Prison and 1930s-40s Brooklyn crime and criminals, mainly those connected with the notorious Murder Inc. crime syndicate.
The Lloyd Sealy Library's The Trial Transcripts of the County of New York 1883 - 1927 collection includes the verbatim typewritten proceedings of 3,326 court cases, mainly criminal trials held in the Court of General Sessions, New York County.
This project has created a searchable digital index of all of these transcripts, which are on 425 reels of microfilm.
Collection URL
Click URL to view — http://www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/crimeinny/
Subjects
Language
eng
Site Created
2006
Institution Type
Academic library
Geographic Place(s)
Kings (county)
Inclusive Dates
1850 1950
Metro Funded Project
Yes
Metro Funding Year
2006
Full Project Title
Crime in New York 1850-1950
Part of Collection
Citation
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, "Crime in New York 1850-1950," in digitalMETRO, Item #18, http://www.nycdigital.org/items/show/18 (accessed February 8, 2012).
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