[rollei_list] Re: OT: Jacob Riis: Shedding Light on NYC's 'Other Half'

From: jon.stanton@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:32:03 +0000

"Bookies"  aka illegal gambling parlors also used enormous amounts of flash 
paper in case of  a police raid.





"   In the 1920's Kodak made flash paper. This was composed of paper sheets 
saturated with a chemical. It was stretched on a frame and set off by the same 
sort of flint spark mechanism used for powder. The idea was to have a 
relatively safe light source."
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