About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0126
  • TitleRubber mutes the early morning noise of milk delivery
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (WORK 0132), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views of Borden milk wagons at unknown location, presumably in Brooklyn; 0126 shows two wagons about to pass each other on broad street with warehouses and gas station in background; 0132 shows two wagons side by side on street with buses, trucks, and automobiles in background. Caption on 0126: "Rubber mutes the early morning noise of delivery: A new silent milk delivery horse and wagon quietly passes iron-shod, iron-tired outfit of the type it will replace on the streets of New York. Rubberized shoes and pneumatic tires reduce the sound of the new equipment by seventy per cent from the old."
  • Date1934
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso of 0126. On verso of 0132: date inscribed: August 30/34. Grease pencil cropping marks on 0132.
  • SubjectBorden Company ; Horse-drawn vehicles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Dairy workers -- 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: Borden Milk Co