About This Item


  • Title[Gambling machines smashed]
  • Call NumberCRIM_0032
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (CRIM 0037), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two similar views of Police Commissioner Wallander and another unidentified man smashing a roulette wheel and other crime-related gambling machines.
  • Date1948
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteDate inscribed on versos: 1948. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectGambling and crime -- New York (State) -- New York ; Police -- New York (State) -- New York ; Roulette -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.