SF Public Library -- Historical Photographs

Photo Id#	AAC-9553
Title	[Coast Guard and police boats searching the waters off Alcatraz for escaped convicts] [graphic].
Date	1943 Apr. 13.
Description	1 photographic print: b&w.
Location	Folder: S.F. Islands-Alcatraz-Prison Breaks-April, 1943.
Reproduction Rights	Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Notes	On back: "20772-----SAN FRANCISCO BUREAU. SEARCH FOR FOUR IN ALCATRAZ PRISON BREAK - SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.,--Coast Guard and police boats patrol the waters of San Francisco Bay and Coast Guardsmen and prison guards search the island on which Alcatraz Prison lies after an apparently futile attempt by four prisoners to break for their freedom. Of the four, Harold Brest, kidnaper and robber, was recaptured after being nicked by a guard's bullet; and bank robbers Floyd Hamilton and James Boarman and former Alvin Karpis associate Fred Hunter were reported 'to have been killed by gunfire or to have drowned.' BUREAUS COAST DENVER. CREDIT LINE (ACME) 4/13/43-k-cm".
	"Acme Newspictures Inc."
Subject	San Francisco (Calif.) -- Photographs.
	Alcatraz Island (Calif.)
	Prison escapes -- California -- Alcatraz Island.
	United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California.
Series	San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Source	Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.)
Collection Name	Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.)