About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0979
  • TitleThis rush is not at the nylon counter
  • SummaryTwo men (one in butcher's white coat and dark cap, one in overcoat and fedora) push and pull wagon loaded with sides of beef, while crowd of men and women lined up against exterior wall look on; sign on rear wall reads, "Blue Ribbon Butter & Egg Co., Inc." Caption: "This rush is not at the nylon counter -- At Fort Greene Retail Meat Market, 174 Fort Greene Place, housewives assembled to stock up against expected 'famine' due to meat packers strike watch as a meat supply is brought in. It may be the market's last for some time to come."
  • Date1946
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jan. 16, 1946; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso. Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Small diagonal portion of bottom right corner missing.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectMeat ; Meat industry and trade ; Consumers
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (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: Fort Greene: Meat Market