About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0136
  • TitleMechanical milkman
  • SummaryWoman in apron removing carton of milk from vending machine. Caption: "Mechanical milkman: without braving winter winds, housewives can get refrigerated quart containers of milk right in their apartment lobbies. At the drop of a coin, a resident in the Clinton Hill Apartments, Clinton Ave., gets a container from the new milk vending machine."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Feb. 6, 1953. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectVending machines -- New York (State) -- New York ; Housewives -- 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