About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0980
  • TitleStocking up
  • SummaryThree clerks in white coats behind wooden counter tend to crowd of customers; scales, cleavers, and waxed paper roll on and behind counter; bologna rolls and saw hanging over counter. Caption: "Stocking up -- Meat packers' strike prompted rush at Fort Greene Retail Meat Market, 174 Fort Greene Place, as clerk James Ganci holds up a piece of steak. Housewives are buying up all available meat before it disappears from markets."
  • Date1946
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jan. 16, 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 ; Consumers
  • 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