About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0894
  • TitleOn strike
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (WORK 0895), some of which may also be described in this new record; Caption: "On strike--Members of Communications Workers of American picket Western Electric warehouse and storage yard at 1495 Herkimer St." Image shows two men and one woman carrying large placards with text, "CWA-CIO are on strike against Bell System for a living wage." 0895 includes policeman standing in right foreground.
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteCopy 1: grease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Nov. 9, 1950; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso of 0894.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCommunications Workers of America ; Picketing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Police -- New York (State) -- New York ; Signs and signboards -- New York (State) -- New York ; Strikes and lockouts -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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: Communications Workers of America