About This Item
- TitleTaking all comers
- Call NumberSWEL_0100
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryCaption: "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."
- Date1950
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1950; photographer's stamp. Title from typed caption on verso.
- CreatorPublicity Photographers
- SubjectFlatbush Boys Club (New York, N.Y.) ; Boys -- Societies and clubs -- New York (State) -- New York ; Checkers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Chess -- 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.