About This Item

  • TitleCheck up
  • Call NumberNEIG_0307
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryMan holding two eggs standing in front of small, box-shaped apparatus. Caption: "Check up--candling of eggs--a vital process in their grading for distribution--is a fascinating daily ritual at Sunnyside Farms in Canarsie's Brooklyn Terminal Market. Here Louis Rubel, partner in the wholesale butter and egg firm, checks for blood clots or staleness."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Mar. 18, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched. Square (3 in.) piece missing in upper right. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectEggs -- Inspection
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceCanarsie (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.