IMAGE ROUNDUP

Getty Image Roundup: A symbol of life

Indignity Vol. 5, No. 38

JOE MACLEOD Tom Scocca

JOE MACLEOD, Tom Scocca

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Getty Image Roundup: A symbol of life
LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 27: Chris Eubank Jr is scanned for EGGs by a member of security using an 'EGG detector' during a press conference ahead of the Middleweight fight between Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn as part of Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on February 27, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Paul Harding/Getty Images)

BUSINESS DEP'T.

Egg Take Pictures

Today brings the close of the longest shortest month in recent memory, and with that, the limited resource that today we share with you—the subscribers and the paid subscribers of Indignity—the remaining bounty of our monthly Getty Images Photo Roundup.

Indignity has purchased an annual subscription to Getty, allowing us to choose from Getty’s vast selection of topical and newsworthy photographs. To make sure all of us get our money’s worth, at the end of each month, Indignity prepares a bonus collection of photos, to keep using up our annual allotment at the appropriate rate.

Here we are, after a hearty breakfast of scarce egg, and we're happy to have you, the readers, along with us, if you were here, we would share egg! Thanks for reading and looking at Indignity, and for (some of you) supporting us with your hard-earned dollars. In honor of the wisdom of the market, here is our February unsurprising photographic theme: EGG.

NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 14: A customer holds cartons of EGGs at a supermarket on February 14, 2025 in New York City. More stores started imposing limits on the product as the shortage caused by outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), or bird flu, persists, causing a frenzy among shoppers. (Photo by Liao Pan/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)
Old Woman Selling EGGs, 1632. Creator: Hendrick Bloemaert. (Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)
SANTIAGO, Nov. 8, 2016 -- A man takes a picture of the installation art work Giant EGG Rain by Dutch artist Henk Hofstra, at the Italia Square in Santiago, capital of Chile, on Nov. 8, 2016. (Xinhua/Jorge Villegas via Getty Images)
The Virgin in the EGG, ca. 1650, Oil on wood, 67.5 × 54.4 × 2.5 cm (26 9/16 × 21 7/16 × 1 in.), Spanish, 17th century, Paintings. (Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Ostrich EGG (1750-1550 BC) from Lachish, Ostriches were native to the Levant, and were often included in tomb deposits. Tel Lachish (the site of an ancient Near East city) is located in the Shephelah region of Israel. (Photo by: Photo 12/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
The EGG Performing Arts Center in Albany, New York. Photo: Mark Coggins.
The phoenix is a mythical sacred firebird that can be found in the mythologies of the Persians, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Chinese, and (according to Sanchuniathon) Phoenicians. A phoenix is a mythical bird that is a fire spirit with a colorful plumage and a tail of gold and scarlet (or purple, blue, and green according to some legends). It has a 500 to 1000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of twigs that then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix EGG arises, reborn anew to live again. The new phoenix is destined to live as long as its old self. In China and Vietnam, the Fenghuang is a mythical bird similar to the phoenix. It is the second most-respected legendary creature (after the dragon), largely used to represent the empress and females, and as such as the counterpart to the Chinese dragon, traditionally seen as masculine or imperial. The phoenix is considered the greatest and the leader of birds. (Photo by: Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Some US supermarkets have stopped selling EGGs - NEW YORK, USA - FEBRUARY 13: An inside view of a supermarket during the EGG crisis in New York, United States of America, on 13 February 2025. Due to the reduction in EGG supply and the sharp rise in prices caused by the avian flu epidemic in the US, some value grocery chains such as Trader Joe's, Costco and Walmart have limited the number of EGGs consumers can buy, leaving shelves bare in some markets, while others have posted warning signs to limit purchases to one carton per customer. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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WEATHER REVIEWS

New York City, February 27, 2025

★ The sky was gray and the pavement was wet but the rain itself was sparse and intermittent, more the idea of a rainy day than rain proper. The missing sun and the pressing wind kept the warmth from being anything nicer than a reduction in discomfort. Footprints rearranged the film of watery black muck on the floor of the subway mezzanine. After a long errand inside the bank, the dampness had started verging on a drizzle.

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SANDWICH RECIPES DEP'T.

WE PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS in aid of the assembly of a sandwich selected from Brewster Book of Recipes, by the Woman's Association of the Brewster Congregational church, Detroit, Michigan, published in 1921, and available at archive.org for the delectation of all.

CHEESE SURPRISE.

Cut 2 slices of bread a little thinner than for the table. Cut ordinary cream cheese little thinner than bread and put between slices like sandwiches. Put butter in frying pan and when hot put in the sandwich and fry slowly until a light brown on each side. Serve hot.
—Mrs. Henry Brown.

If you decide to prepare and attempt to enjoy a sandwich inspired by this offering, be sure to send a picture to indignity@indignity.net. 

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