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Title: Craps at Capitol Park
Date Created and/or Issued: 1914
Contributing Institution: Sacramento Public Library
Collection: Sacramento Room Photographs
Rights Information: This image may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.). Copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction and use of this image are available from the Sacramento Public Library.
Description: Scene of four men playing craps in Capitol Park in 1914. The photograph identifies the men as Brad, Harry, Jim, and Red. California banned gambling in 1885, but began relaxing the ban during the Great Depression. Sacramento irregularly enforced the ban on social gambling; I St saw many police raids in the Chinese quarters to stop gambling during the turn of the century.
Type: image
Identifier: PH-2021-21
http://sacroom.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15248coll1/id/4292
Subject: Capitol Park
Trees
Street Scenes
Source: Sacramento Room Photograph Collection

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