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  • TitleHelp in the dairy country
  • Call NumberWORK_0131
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFour young men, one shirtless, erecting fence on grassy field; barn in background. Caption: "Help in the dairy country: Addison Taylor, left, son of Brig. Gen. and Mrs. W. R. Taylor of Garden City, and his four [i.e., three] companions from Princeton are building a barbed-wire fence at Borden's Walker-Gordon Farm, Plainsboro, N.J. Along with 96 other Princetonians, they've been helping out on the farm to relieve the labor shortage."
  • Date1943
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jul. 3, 1943. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBorden Company ; Farms -- New Jersey -- Plainsboro ; College students -- New Jersey ; Fences
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceOther place
  • LocationPlainsboro (N.J.)
  • 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.