Taking all comers
| Title: | Taking all comers | 
| Description: | Caption: "Taking all comers--Thomas Wiswell, 'Mr. Checkers,' U. S. Army checkers champion, 1942-45, takes on 14 players simultaneously (12 checkers games and 2 chess games) in the auditorium of the Flatbush Boys Club, during the National Boys Club Week, March 20-16."  | 
		
| Date: | 1950 | 
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) | 
		
| More Details: | 
				On verso: date inscribed: 1950; photographer's stamp. Title from typed caption on verso.  | 
		
| Collection: | Social Welfare						
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| Subject: | 
			
				Flatbush Boys Club (New York, N.Y.) Boys Checkers Chess  | 
		
| 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: | SWEL 0100 | 

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