# Slot machine players, Las Vegas, Nevada (1940)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2017779954-slot-machine-players-las-vegas-1940/

Farm Security Administration photograph by Arthur Rothstein of people at a bank of slot machines in a Las Vegas club, March 1940.

The Library of Congress title is "Slot machine players, Las Vegas, Nevada." Arthur Rothstein made the photograph for the Farm Security Administration in March 1940. A sign above the machines reads "Get change at bar." The caption names no one and does not name the club.

The photograph predates the race-book and wire-service disputes in Las Vegas that the Kefauver Committee heard about in 1950; it is filed as a view of legal machine gambling in Nevada, not as evidence about any of them. The copy stored here is the Library's medium-size JPEG.

## Sources

- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division: https://www.loc.gov/item/2017779954/
- Library of Congress item record (JSON): https://www.loc.gov/item/2017779954/?fo=json