About This Item

  • TitleTexas warn't like this
  • Call NumberWORK_0152
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Texas warn't like this--A 200-pound calf, [led by George Russek,] broke out of a Greenpoint abattoir and ... plunged into English Kills, a muddy arm of Newtown Creek. The calf was one of 80 being unloaded at a platform at the rear of the J. H. Rodman-Graf Corporation abattoir at 309 Johnson Ave. ..." Image includes policeman and four other men, all unidentified.
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Nov. 16, 1950; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCalves -- New York (State) -- New York ; Police -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Greenpoint (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.