About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0135
  • Title3,500 chickens
  • SummaryMan in chicken coop collecting eggs from chickens in cages. Caption: "3,500 chickens: Murray Weiss, proprietor of the Weiss Way Egg Farm, 15 Fairfield Ave. [now Flatlands Ave.], collects daily supply of fresh eggs from his 3,500 White Leghorns on the only poultry farm in the metropolitan area...."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Nov. 9, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp.
  • CreatorKruh, Johnny
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectChickens -- Housing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Poultry farms -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Dairies: General