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Monday after the "Great St. Leger." or Heroes of the turf paying & recieving [sic] at Tattersalls / drawn & engraved by R. Cruikshank.

Monday after the "Great St. Leger." or Heroes of the turf paying & rec...

Quadrangle at Tattersalls filled with groups of betting men including Mr. Tanfield, Lord Sefton, Col. Hylton Jolliffe, Sir L. Skeffington, and John Gully, the ex-pugilist. A Jewish man sells wares from a basket... More

The magnetic bunco-steerer and his confederate / Gillam.

The magnetic bunco-steerer and his confederate / Gillam.

Illustration shows, at left, on the sidewalk outside a gambling room labeled "Monopoly Club Shades", James G. Blaine and Benjamin F. Butler cornering a "Workingman" and trying to steer him into the gaming room;... More

When fortune smiles drama in 4 acts

When fortune smiles drama in 4 acts

Picryl description: Public domain image of music song book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

When fortune smiles drama in 4 acts

When fortune smiles drama in 4 acts

Picryl description: Public domain image of music song book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The  green millionaire a comedy in four acts

The green millionaire a comedy in four acts

Picryl description: Public domain book on economy and capitalism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Town of Locke, Dai Loy Gambling Museum, 13951 Main Street, Locke, Sacramento County, CA

Town of Locke, Dai Loy Gambling Museum, 13951 Main Street, Locke, Sacr...

Significance: This is one of a group of buildings that forms a Main Street facade, each separated by a narrow alleyway and typical of such structures with similar facades. It was built in 1916 and operated as ... More

Town of Locke, Dai Loy Gambling Museum, 13951 Main Street, Locke, Sacramento County, CA

Town of Locke, Dai Loy Gambling Museum, 13951 Main Street, Locke, Sacr...

Significance: This is one of a group of buildings that forms a Main Street facade, each separated by a narrow alleyway and typical of such structures with similar facades. It was built in 1916 and operated as ... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

From happiness to the gallows: [drama in 4 acts

From happiness to the gallows: [drama in 4 acts

Picryl description: Public domain copy of a script, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A den in Baxter Street wood engraving, Library of Congress

A den in Baxter Street wood engraving, Library of Congress

People gambling and drinking in a den on Baxter Street, New York City.

Gambling with death / Gillam. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Gambling with death / Gillam. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows, at center, a capitalist, sitting on money bags labeled "Insurance Money" and leaning against several papers labeled "New Policy", gambling with the Grim Reaper, while all around them disaste... More

[African Americans resting and shooting dice at edge of cotton field]

[African Americans resting and shooting dice at edge of cotton field]

D18909 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by the Alfred S. Campbell Art Co., Elizabeth, N.J.

They'll never get us, said the black cheatah [sic] to his spotted mate

They'll never get us, said the black cheatah [sic] to his spotted mate

Black cheetah, "The system," watching "District Att'y" and "Aldermen" shooting at each other.

Unidentified African American sailors playing betting game Leo Weintrob, formerly with Franc Mandey, photographer to Carmen Sylvia, Queen of Roumania ... Atlantic City, N.J

Unidentified African American sailors playing betting game Leo Weintro...

Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2017; (D073) Purchased from: Orton and Pat Begner, Rochester, New York, via Civil War Collectables, Kendall, New York, February 2017.

After everybody had stacked up and cashed in ...

After everybody had stacked up and cashed in ...

(DLC/PP-1933:0112). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Fable of the Cousins who got to-gether much and plenty" by George Ade, Cosmopolitan, 69:95 (July 1920).

Game of Craps. Cincinnati, Ohio. Aug. 1908. Location: Cincinnati, Ohio Photo by Lewis W. Hine

Game of Craps. Cincinnati, Ohio. Aug. 1908. Location: Cincinnati, Ohio...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 10. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

8:00 P.M. Flashlight photo of messengers absorbed in their usual Poker game in the "Den of the Terrible Nine" (the waiting room for Wes. Union Messengers, Hartford, Conn.) They play for money. Some loose a whole month's wages in a day and then are afraid to go home.  Location: Hartford, Connecticut.

8:00 P.M. Flashlight photo of messengers absorbed in their usual Poker...

A black and white photo of a group of men. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Diana Saloon, 205 J Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

Diana Saloon, 205 J Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

Significance: The one-story building was erected in 1852 by D.A. Whipley on the site of the "Stinking Tent," the first gambling hall which had been established in 1849. Built at a lower level, the structure wa... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Town of Locke, Dai Loy Gambling Museum, 13951 Main Street, Locke, Sacramento County, CA

Town of Locke, Dai Loy Gambling Museum, 13951 Main Street, Locke, Sacr...

Significance: This is one of a group of buildings that forms a Main Street facade, each separated by a narrow alleyway and typical of such structures with similar facades. It was built in 1916 and operated as ... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Four cowboys playing poker in Cedar Canyon, Custer County, Nebraska.

Four cowboys playing poker in Cedar Canyon, Custer County, Nebraska.

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The big scenic production, Man's enemy by Chas. A. Longdon & Eric Hudson : now in its fourth year in England.

The big scenic production, Man's enemy by Chas. A. Longdon & Eric Huds...

D2176 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Ruined. Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print., Cin. & N.Y." No. 4276. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Knott Wright. "Mr. Jones is at the door; he wants you to go to the ball game with him!"

Knott Wright. "Mr. Jones is at the door; he wants you to go to the bal...

Four-frame comic strip. Knott refuses to go out, despite his wife's messages from friends offering to take him places. She finally makes him promise to never bet on a losing horse again. Inscribed in pencil a... More

Open gambling, the Louvre, Reno, Nev.

Open gambling, the Louvre, Reno, Nev.

View in gambling casino, roulette table and bar in foreground. J146047 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by L. Levitch.

Diana Saloon, 205 J Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

Diana Saloon, 205 J Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

Significance: The one-story building was erected in 1852 by D.A. Whipley on the site of the "Stinking Tent," the first gambling hall which had been established in 1849. Built at a lower level, the structure wa... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Town of Locke, The Tules, River Road, Locke, Sacramento County, CA

Town of Locke, The Tules, River Road, Locke, Sacramento County, CA

Significance: This wooden structure, built in 1912 by Tin San Chan, was one of the first three structures erected in Locke, and has served as a bar, boarding house and gambling parlor. Survey number: HABS CA-2... More

The gambler's ruin /

The gambler's ruin /

Peter Thurston develops a mania for gambling and gradually sinks lower and lower until he is ruined. Failing to obtain money from either his wife or his father, Peter becomes a burglar. Sometime after, he break... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

General Patricks punishment for gamblers

General Patricks punishment for gamblers

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, November 7, 1863, p. 717 as : The Army of the Potomac-Gamblers at the Provost Marshal's Headquarters. Gift, J.P. Morgan... More

Still in the game - A group of men sitting around a table playing cards

Still in the game - A group of men sitting around a table playing card...

Photograph shows old men playing cards with money and chips on the table; other men stand close by watching.

Killing time while the rest of their convoy loads, Japanese-American members of the 442nd Combat Team indulge in a little of the great American game of galloping dominoes with the bed of a GI truck as their table

Killing time while the rest of their convoy loads, Japanese-American m...

Soldiers gambling, Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Photograph by Bureau of Public Relations, U.S. War Department.

Gamblers, Native American woman portrait

Gamblers, Native American woman portrait

Photograph shows group of Indians from Columbia tribe, Colville Reservation, Washington State, playing a game of chance. J165107 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 139. WSUNA

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Town of Locke, The Tules, River Road, Locke, Sacramento County, CA

Town of Locke, The Tules, River Road, Locke, Sacramento County, CA

Significance: This wooden structure, built in 1912 by Tin San Chan, was one of the first three structures erected in Locke, and has served as a bar, boarding house and gambling parlor. Survey number: HABS CA-2... More

Town of Locke, Dai Loy Gambling Museum, 13951 Main Street, Locke, Sacramento County, CA

Town of Locke, Dai Loy Gambling Museum, 13951 Main Street, Locke, Sacr...

Significance: This is one of a group of buildings that forms a Main Street facade, each separated by a narrow alleyway and typical of such structures with similar facades. It was built in 1916 and operated as ... More

Town of Locke, Dai Loy Gambling Museum, 13951 Main Street, Locke, Sacramento County, CA

Town of Locke, Dai Loy Gambling Museum, 13951 Main Street, Locke, Sacr...

Significance: This is one of a group of buildings that forms a Main Street facade, each separated by a narrow alleyway and typical of such structures with similar facades. It was built in 1916 and operated as ... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

[The new gambling room, Monte Carlo, Riviera]

[The new gambling room, Monte Carlo, Riviera]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "16478". Forms part of: Views of the French and Italian Riviera in the Photochrom... More

The annual scatter / L.M. Glackens. - Public domain map

The annual scatter / L.M. Glackens. - Public domain map

Illustration shows a jester pouring dice in the shape of men and women from a cup labeled "The Rail Roads" onto a topographical map. The travel number. Illus. in: Puck, v. 69, no. 1789 (1911 June 14), cover. C... More

[Two contact sheets showing men socializing, playing cards (gambling) at a community recreational facility, children swinging indoors at recreational facility, and adults in a thrift(?) shop possibly on an upper floor of same facility, after leaving they walk towards Amity Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]

[Two contact sheets showing men socializing, playing cards (gambling) ...

Illus. in album: A city experienced: Pittsburgh, Pa., a photographic interpretation / W. Eugene Smith, v. 2, E9-R299 & E9-R300.

When fortune smiles drama in 4 acts

When fortune smiles drama in 4 acts

Picryl description: Public domain image of music song book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Men and women in evening dress around a gambling table]

[Men and women in evening dress around a gambling table]

Title from shelflist card. (DLC/PP-1935:0006). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Scribner's.

(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) A midnight crap game in the street near Post Office, Providence, R.I. Nov 23, 1912. One 12 years old, one 14. One had been shooting here a couple of hours.  Location: Providence, Rhode Island.

(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) A midnight crap game in the stree...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Rhode Island, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

La Revue Comique par Jehan Testevuide, no. 25-28

La Revue Comique par Jehan Testevuide, no. 25-28

Four satirical vignettes. In the first vignette, Marianne, the symbol of France, sits at a gambling table, spending the workers' pensions. In the second vignette a crowd gathers around a hole in a Parisienne st... More

Town of Locke, Dai Loy Gambling Museum, 13951 Main Street, Locke, Sacramento County, CA

Town of Locke, Dai Loy Gambling Museum, 13951 Main Street, Locke, Sacr...

Significance: This is one of a group of buildings that forms a Main Street facade, each separated by a narrow alleyway and typical of such structures with similar facades. It was built in 1916 and operated as ... More

Town of Locke, Dai Loy Gambling Museum, 13951 Main Street, Locke, Sacramento County, CA

Town of Locke, Dai Loy Gambling Museum, 13951 Main Street, Locke, Sacr...

Significance: This is one of a group of buildings that forms a Main Street facade, each separated by a narrow alleyway and typical of such structures with similar facades. It was built in 1916 and operated as ... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Modern hospitality, or A friendly party in high life, British Cartoon Print

Modern hospitality, or A friendly party in high life, British Cartoon ...

Print showing Lady Archer, the Prince of Wales (later King George IV), the Countess of Buckinghamshire, and Charles Fox engaged in a game of faro as spectators observe. "A scene at a faro-table; part of the ta... More

Gambling by wireless / Ehrhart., Political Cartoon

Gambling by wireless / Ehrhart., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows a vignette cartoon of scenes about the activities of stock exchanges and gambling on sporting events on ocean liners once they are equipped for wireless transmission. Caption: As it will be ... More

The Devil passes Comedy drama by Benn W. Levy : opening Dec. 26.

The Devil passes Comedy drama by Benn W. Levy : opening Dec. 26.

Poster for Federal Theatre Projects presentation of "The Devil Passes" at the Columbia, 135 O'Farrell St., San Francisco, Calif., showing the Devil holding playing cards in one hand and a bottle in the other. W... More

8:00 P.M. Flashlight photo of messengers absorbed in their usual Poker game in the "Den of the Terrible Nine" (the waiting room for Wes. Union Messengers, Hartford, Conn.) They play for money. Some loose a whole month's wages in a day and then are afraid to go home.  Location: Hartford, Connecticut.

8:00 P.M. Flashlight photo of messengers absorbed in their usual Poker...

A group of men sitting on top of a white box. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bona fide crap game - Sunday. Mill boys. Near King Philip Mill. Near Tuttle St. 14-16 year old mill boys. See 4190.  Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Bona fide crap game - Sunday. Mill boys. Near King Philip Mill. Near T...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Diana Saloon, 205 J Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

Diana Saloon, 205 J Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

Significance: The one-story building was erected in 1852 by D.A. Whipley on the site of the "Stinking Tent," the first gambling hall which had been established in 1849. Built at a lower level, the structure wa... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, FL

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Town of Locke, Dai Loy Gambling Museum, 13951 Main Street, Locke, Sacramento County, CA

Town of Locke, Dai Loy Gambling Museum, 13951 Main Street, Locke, Sacr...

Significance: This is one of a group of buildings that forms a Main Street facade, each separated by a narrow alleyway and typical of such structures with similar facades. It was built in 1916 and operated as ... More

Town of Locke, Dai Loy Gambling Museum, 13951 Main Street, Locke, Sacramento County, CA

Town of Locke, Dai Loy Gambling Museum, 13951 Main Street, Locke, Sacr...

Significance: This is one of a group of buildings that forms a Main Street facade, each separated by a narrow alleyway and typical of such structures with similar facades. It was built in 1916 and operated as ... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

Jeu des habitans de Californie - Public domain book illustration

Jeu des habitans de Californie - Public domain book illustration

Native women watching men play game, possibly related to gambling, at a mission near San Francisco, California.

Paiute Indians gambling at the wickyup

Paiute Indians gambling at the wickyup

Photograph shows men and women Paiute Indians, in Euro-American dress, gambling with cards in front of a wickyup. Copyright 1898 by Sage Brush Art. Co.

A crap game in the paper alley.  Location: Rochester, New York (State)

A crap game in the paper alley. Location: Rochester, New York (State)

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Come on in, the whitewash is fine!

Come on in, the whitewash is fine!

"Fountain of perpetual purity" and "Whitewash" on fountain. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: New York Herald, Sept. 20, 1912, p. 1.

The scarlet woman - whom shall she pay? / Gordon Grant '12.

The scarlet woman - whom shall she pay? / Gordon Grant '12.

Illustration shows a woman wearing a red dress, holding money, standing between the "Health Department Bureau of Licences and Inspection" and an opening in a wall labeled "Graft". In a cut-away showing the scen... More

[Alicia plays like an idiot, said Lewis brutally : the money she's lost --  like a fool]

[Alicia plays like an idiot, said Lewis brutally : the money she's los...

(DLC/PP-1934:0056). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Enemies of Women" by Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Hearst's magazine, 37:39 (June 1920).

Casino, Central City, Colorado - Drawing. Public domain image.

Casino, Central City, Colorado - Drawing. Public domain image.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Even gasoline stations in the old mining town of Centra... More

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