$1,000,000 hammer wielder
| Title: | $1,000,000 hammer wielder |
| Description: | Caption: "$1,000,000 hammer wielder--Another pinball machine (declared by courts to be illegal) bites the dust as Police Commissioner William P. O'Brien swings a sledge hammer on first of 2,259 such machines valued at $1,000,000, which are being destroyed at police garage, Meeker and Morgan Aves. It's part of anti-gambling drive police have been carrying on for a year." |
| Date: | 1949 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
| Creator: | Brooklyn eagle. |
| More Details: |
Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Mar. 20, 1949; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso. |
| Collection: | Crime
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| Subject: |
Demolition Gambling and crime Pinball machines 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 0031 |

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