Major Green, New York

Unknown

January 14, 1937 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

The presence of prison bars dominates this press photograph of a recently booked inmate. Major Green, a porter, confessed to the murder of Mrs. Mary Robinson Case, who was found strangled in the bathtub of her New York apartment.

Artist

Unknown

Date

January 14, 1937

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2013