About This Item


  • Call NumberWORK_1114
  • TitlePicket line violence
  • SummaryCaption: "Picket line violence--After a scuffle between police and pickets outside the main office of the Brooklyn Trust Company today, Harvey Frankel, a social worker with the United Service for New Americans (left), awaits medical attention after being injured by a policeman's club. At right, Leon Berney, a union organizer, is being taken to a patrol car."
  • Date1947
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Image is in two sections, 9 x 8 in. and 9 x 5 in. On verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 17, 1947. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPicketing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Police -- New York (State) -- New York ; Strikes and lockouts -- New York (State) -- New York ; Wounds and injuries -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Strikes: Brooklyn Trust Company