About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0972
  • TitlePrice slash
  • SummaryFour women wearing overcoats admire meat displayed by butcher in fedora hat and white coat; other customers and butchers in background; various meats hanging from hooks above counter. Caption: "Price slash -- The customers line up at Fort Greene Retail Meat Market [175 Fort Greene Place] to take advantage of bargains in choice cuts. Butcher holds up a sirloin."
  • Date1947
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Oct. 3, 1947; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso. Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectMeat ; Meat industry and trade ; Butchers ; 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