About This Item


  • Call NumberWORK_0129
  • TitleBabies must have milk
  • SummaryLine of mothers with baby carriages, children, and others, waiting to obtain milk during strike by milk workers; two policemen supervising crowd. Caption: "Babies must have milk: Here is part of the crowd of 3,500 persons who lined up at the Borden plant, 85 3d Ave., in quest of milk. Those pictures here faced a three-hour wait and got one quart each."
  • 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: Oct. 27, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp.
  • CreatorGeller, Jules
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBorden Company ; Strikes and lockouts -- Dairying -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Carroll Gardens (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