About This Item


  • Call NumberWORK_0305
  • TitlePigs is pigs
  • SummaryCaption: "Pigs is pigs--Two young porkers ... display anything but gratitude to chemist Herbert Luther, whose experiments at the Pfizer laboratories have provided them with terralac, the magic new baby pig food. Scene is the hygienic pig farm maintained in the Pfizer building."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Nov. 29, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFactories -- New York (State) -- New York ; Laboratories -- New York (State) -- New York ; Pharmaceutical industry -- New York (State) -- New York ; Swine -- 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: Factories: Pharmaceutical: Pfizer, Charles & Co.: I