About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0700
  • TitleJaw session
  • SummaryOlder worker in cap confronting two policemen (backs to camera); large crowd of workers observing confrontation; other policemen and one horse in background. Caption: "Jaw session: Angry dockworkers engage in verbal exchanges with two brawny cops outside the Erie Basin piers, where almost 400 cops were on hand to maintain order."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Oct. 13, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; "Eagle photo." Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectInternational Longshoremen's Association ; Stevedores -- New York (State) -- New York ; Strikes and lockouts -- Stevedores -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceRed Hook (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: International Longshoreman Assc. (ILA): Strikes