TV broadcast over a closed circuit emanating from the Police Department Headquarters on Centre Street to Brooklyn Police Headquarters on Bergen Street where the mock lineup was viewed by police officials. Mayor Wagner and Police Commissioner Francis Adams watch while the mock lineup is televised – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures TV broadcast over a closed circuit emanating from the Police Department Headquarters on Centre Street to Brooklyn Police Headquarters on Bergen Street where the mock lineup was viewed by police officials. Mayor Wagner and Police Commissioner Francis Adams watch while the mock lineup is televised in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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TV broadcast over a closed circuit emanating from the Police Department Headquarters on Centre Street to Brooklyn Police Headquarters on Bergen Street where the mock lineup was viewed by police officials. Mayor Wagner and Police Commissioner Francis Adams watch while the mock lineup is televised
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Few pictures on this board show police work through a television screen. This one records a closed-circuit broadcast from Police Department headquarters on center Street in Manhattan to Brooklyn Police Headquarters on Bergen Street, where a mock lineup was shown to officials. Mayor Wagner and Police Commissioner Francis Adams are shown watching the broadcast in February 1954. Television was still new to most households then, and using it to present a lineup across boroughs was an early experiment in how police could handle identifications without moving people between offices.
| Created / published | 1954 Feb. 8. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by Wide World. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Police; Television; B.I.; Ph. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,250 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155718 |
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