About This Item

  • Call NumberCRIM_0041
  • TitleHend in $50,000,000 policy racket
  • SummaryCaption: "Held in $50,000,000 policy racket--Booked in Elizabeth S . Station, Manhattan, as operators of far-spreading numbers game are (front line, left to right), Martin Martinson, Abraham Goldberg, Jack Feldman, Irving Blitz, and Edward Kane, with Emilio Strollo behind Kane. Detectives in background are watching the booking ceremony."
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 26, 1949; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBookmakers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Detectives -- New York (State) -- New York ; Gambling and crime -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Crime: Gambling: II