About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0978
  • TitleMeat, and plenty of it
  • SummaryTwo workers, one standing on ground, one standing in truck, load sides of beef into back of open truck, possibly at 174 Fort Greene Place. Caption: "Meat, and plenty of it -- This scene is in one of the independent packing company storage refrigerators in the Fort Greene Market area. But you'll see little of this; most of it is earmarked for hospitals."
  • Date1946
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jan. 17, 1946; 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
  • 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