Eggs--Packing

Photograph of an egg grading plant in operation in the early 20th century. Four women stand around a machine placing eggs in boxes.

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.

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

Photograph of a man standing next to multiple crates of eggs in a room illustrating egg packing in Ballyhay, Ireland in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Illustration of an egg packing tray - with and without eggs in the early 20th century.

Three photographs of English-made cases and fillers for egg packs in the early 20th century: Fig. 10 - 30-dozen non-returnable case; Fig. 11 - 30-dozen returnable case, detachable lid, metal seals; Fig. 12 - 30-dozen returnable case, hinged lid, felt pads.

Recto: photographs appear to have been removed.

Verso: photograph of an unidentified man and woman standing on the steps of the Poultry Research Centre; photograph of an unidentified woman packing eggs (both photographs signed 'M.L. 1958')

Illustration of an advertisement for the Pocock Egg Box that won '9 first and other prizes' in the egg section and was sponsored by the Dairy Outfit Co, Limited, Kings Cross, London, N.