Joseph Petrosino seated indoors in a bowler hat and heavy overcoat, hands in his pockets; the negative is captioned 'Lieut. Petrosino' and numbered 744-14. — Open the full imageJPG, 832 × 1024 px, 0.1 MB

Lieut. Petrosino (Bain News Service, undated)

Undated Bain News Service portrait captioned "Lieut. Petrosino": Joseph Petrosino seated indoors in a bowler hat and overcoat. A copy is stored here.

Date: 1900/1909
Kind: photograph
Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Rights: The Library of Congress rights advisory on the item record reads: "No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html" Collection: George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Call number: LC-B2- 744-14 [P&P]. Reproduction number: LC-DIG-ggbain-03609.

The Library of Congress catalogs this Bain News Service glass negative under its caption, “Lieut. Petrosino.” The record states that no date was recorded on the caption card; its date field holds a placeholder year of 1900. The span given here runs from that placeholder to 1909, the year of Petrosino’s death, and is not a date stated by the record.

He is seated indoors, in a bowler hat and a heavy overcoat, with his hands in his pockets. The negative number 744-14 and the caption are written at the top of the plate.

The copy stored here is the Library’s service JPEG.

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