About This Item


  • Call NumberWORK_0125
  • TitleHot weather antidote
  • SummaryTwo workers with caps, gloves, and thermal jumpsuites stacking boxes in refrigerated storage area at Borden's Milk plant, presumably in Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn. Caption: "Hot weather antidote: If you sweltered as the mercury sizzled today, maybe this will help. The 21 degree below termperature at the cold room of Borden Company's Pioneer District Plant is all in a day's work for these men...."
  • Date[ca. 1940]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso.
  • SubjectBorden Company ; Cold-storage lockers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Dairy plants -- New York (State) -- New York ; Dairy workers -- 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: Dairies: Borden Milk Co