About This Item
- Title$1,000,000 hammer wielder
- Call NumberCRIM_0031
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryCaption: "$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."
- Date1949
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
- NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Mar. 20, 1949; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
- CreatorBrooklyn eagle
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectDemolition -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Gambling and crime -- New York (State) -- New York ; Pinball machines -- New York (State) -- New York ; Police -- 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.