About This Item


  • Call NumberWORK_0941
  • TitleLandmark in food distribution
  • SummaryCaption: "Landmark in food distribution--Bringing many innovations to the retailing methods of its day, this A & P of a generation ago marked another forward step in the swift progress of american merchandising. Celebrating their 80th anniversary this week, A & P stores are staging special sales to dramatize the company policy of 'good food at low prices'." Image shows four men and one boy standing outside store entrance and two crates and one barrel stacked in right foreground. The location, presumably, Brooklyn is uknown; the image is not dated.
  • Date[191-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteCopy 1 is retouched. On verso: date inscribed: Oct. 1/34. Title from typed caption on verso.
  • SubjectBarrels -- New York (State) -- New York ; Crates -- New York (State) -- New York ; Grocery trade -- New York (State) -- New York ; Supermarkets -- 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
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.
  • FolderFolder: Stores: A & P (Atlantic & Pacific): Old