About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0981
  • TitleBehind closed doors
  • SummaryFour Armour trucks, backed against sidewalk; truck on left has sign reading, "Armour Star, America's most delicious ham"; two men passing by on right; top floor of residential or commercial building in background. Caption: "Behind closed doors -- These trucks lined up at the Armour plant on Atlantic Ave. are loaded with meat, according to pickets in front of the plant, but nobody will unload it and nobody will drive it away."
  • Date1946
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 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 industry and trade ; Trucks ; Ham
  • 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