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Eggs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:

Egg Grading, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/263
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a 'Daylight Tester - an apparatus fitted with electric light and shutters to obviate necessity for a dark room' in the late 19th or early 20th century. Shows a woman and a man standing on either side of a wooden machine holding eggs beneath it with wooden packing crates next to and behind them.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Egg Pack, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/253
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a 'Cornish case of 600 eggs, showing method of packing' in straw in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Evidence of linkage between the two egg albumen loci in the domestic fowl, 1964

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/3/332
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1964.

Dates: 1964

Fragment of a story about 'Du-sith beag MacIlle-She'anaich', August 1886

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/42
Scope and Contents

Fragment of a story which reads 'Du-sith beag MacIlle-She'anaich put egg on head of his boy & broke it then kill[ed] the creat[ure] before all but three.'

Dates: August 1886

Genetic manipulation of egg quality, 1987

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/2/148
Scope and Contents

Located in I.A.P.G.R-E.R.S. Staff Papers 1987. Part 1 and Index.

Dates: 1987

Genetic polymorphisms in the egg albumen proteins of the domestic fowl, 25 March 1961

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/3/213
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1958-61.

Dates: 25 March 1961

Judging Eggs - Dairy Show, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3378
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a man judging eggs on a plate on a long table at a dairy show in 1938.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Laying efficiency as related to carcass fat depots, 1991

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/2/933
Scope and Contents

Located in I.A.P.G.R-E.R.S. Staff Papers 1991. Part 1 and Index.

Dates: 1991