About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0688
  • Title[Longshoremen demonstrating]
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (WORK 0686), some of which may also be described in this new record; Large crowd of Brooklyn longshoremen behind police barricades during time of electioneering and violence between union factions; 0686 shows workers looking into camera after having apparently knocked down one of the barricades; 0688 shows closer view of workers behind barricade and several policemen in right foreground.
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date stamped: Dec. 24, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectInternational Longshoremen's Association ; Stevedores leaders -- New York (State) -- New York ; Labor unions -- Elections -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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): Vote II