Gunmen arriving at Sing Sing, Whitey Lewis, 1912 (Library of Congress)
Bain News Service photograph captioned "Gunmen arriving at Sing Sing, Whitey Lewis": a crowd scene from the Herman Rosenthal murder case, dated November 1912. A copy is stored here.
- Date
- 1912-11
- 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- 2476-9 [P&P] LOT 10847 (Corresponding print) LOT 10877 (Corresponding print:). Reproduction number: LC-DIG-ggbain-11142 (digital file from original negative).
The Library of Congress catalogs this Bain News Service photograph under its caption, “Gunmen arriving at Sing Sing, Whitey Lewis.” The Library’s summary describes gunmen convicted of killing Herman Rosenthal, en route to Sing Sing prison, Ossining, New York.
The date [1912 November] is the Library’s, taken from a similar Bain negative (LC-B2-2452-3). The photograph is a crowd scene. The record does not single out Lewis, and this page does not mark which figure is he.
The photograph is a George Grantham Bain Collection glass negative. The copy stored here is the Library’s service JPEG.
