"Lefty Louie" and "Gyp the Blood" with their captors, 1912 (Library of Congress)
Bain News Service photograph captioned "'Lefty Louie', 'Gyp the Blood', & their captors", from the Herman Rosenthal murder case. A copy is stored here.
- Date
- 1912
- Kind
- photograph
- 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- 2453-12 [P&P] LOT 10847 (Corresponding print). Reproduction number: LC-DIG-ggbain-10916 (digital file from original neg.).
The Library of Congress catalogs this Bain News Service photograph under its caption, “”Lefty Louie”, “Gyp the Blood”, & their captors.” The Library’s summary says it shows “Lefty Louie” Rosenberg and “Gyp the Blood” Horowitz, who with “Whitey” Lewis and “Dago Frank” Cirofici were convicted of killing Herman Rosenthal, proprietor of an alleged gambling house in New York City. The summary credits the Flickr Commons project (2008).
The record gives the date as [1912], a date the Library notes may be when Bain created or published the print. It does not name the captors. This archive has not filed the trial record; the conviction is stated here as the Library’s summary states it.
The photograph is a George Grantham Bain Collection glass negative. The copy stored here is the Library’s service JPEG.
