Title: | Alas, the poor bookie! |
Description: | Caption: "Alas, the poor bookie!--... An indication as to just how open the bookies operate in the borough is given in this before picture made of a shack at Johnson and Adams St. just opposite the Federal Building which houses the post office and federal courts. ... A bookmaker was arrested inside the shack and is facing a hearing in Special Sessions Court." |
Date: | 1950 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
More Details: |
Cropped. Date stamped on verso: Jan. 10, 1950y photo. Title from caption on verso. |
Collection: | Crime [4]
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Subject: |
Book-making (Betting) [5] Fire hydrants [6] Gambling and crime [7] Huts [8] |
Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. |
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 0057 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/e3a7cef8c765fed99b608185f9c3b2e7&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Downtown+Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Crime
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Book-making (Betting)
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/f/Fire hydrants
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/g/Gambling and crime
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/h/Huts