English: Mugshot of New York labor racketeer and gangster "Dopey" Benny Fein. The picture is provided by NYPD archives and featured in Herbert Asbury's 1926 book "The Gangs of New York".
Date
(first publication)
c. 1910s (likely creation)
Source
"The Gangs of New York" by Herbert Asbury (1926)
Author
Original author unknown.
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First known publication is 1926, and the book it was published in was not renewed with the US Copyright Office. If it was published earlier than the book, it's almost certainly in the public domain.
Mugshot of New York labor racketeer and gangster "Dopey" Benny Fein. The picture is provided by NYPD archives and featured in Herbert Asbury's 1926 book "The Gangs of New York". I believe this picture to be in public domain as all of the images and pictur
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