# Bookie figuring out bets for Kentucky Derby, Warrenton, Virginia (1941)

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Farm Security Administration photograph by Marion Post Wolcott, captioned as a bookie figuring out bets for the Kentucky Derby at Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia, May 1941.

The Library of Congress title is "Bookie figuring out bets for Kentucky derby, Warrenton, Virginia." Marion Post Wolcott made the photograph for the Farm Security Administration in May 1941. One man writes on a large sheet at a table; the other stands at a board of horse names, holding a betting sheet. A hand-lettered negative number is on the frame.

The caption calls the man a bookie; the men are not named. It is filed as a view of betting away from the track on a race run in Kentucky, the business the racing wire served. The copy stored here is the Library's medium-size JPEG.

## Sources

- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division: https://www.loc.gov/item/2017806772/
- Library of Congress item record (JSON): https://www.loc.gov/item/2017806772/?fo=json