Interior of Cold Storage Plant at Gutfreund's, 427 West 17th Street, New York City, 1938

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York
1938-02-08
safety film, Defender
8 x 10 x 0 in.

8x10 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on February 8, 1938. Image of interior cold storage plant at Gutfreund’s, 427 West 17th Street, New York City. Visible in image: interior of meat locker with sides of meat hanging from ceiling on hooks, men at work sawing and chipping meat with saws and axes into portions and picking out other sides to cut. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. Typed on original negative sleeve: “53285 2/8/38 / 2479-21 / Diesel Progress- 2 W 45th St-City / Mr. Sibley / Interior cold storage plant at / GUTFREUND’S 427 W 17th St, NYC”.

1984.187.53285

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection