Iron bookie

Iron bookie
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Title: Iron bookie
Description:

Caption: "Iron bookie--Patrolman Thomas Lawrence checks over 'cheesebox' gadget found in room at 264 W. 23d St., Manhattan, which was used by bookie ring in Brooklyn to make contact with bettors."

Date: 1949
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Brooklyn eagle.
More Details: Date stamped on verso: May 6, 1949; on caption: "Eagle staff photo."
Grease pencil cropoping marks; retouched.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Crime
Subject: Book-making (Betting)
Gambling and crime
Police
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Portraits.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library.
ID: CRIM 0055