About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0977
  • TitleStrikers
  • SummaryCaption: "Strikers -- Two pickets walk up and down in front of the Armour & Co. plant at Atlantic Ave. and Fort Greene Place"; picketers on littered sidewalk wear signs reading, "Unfair -- Please do not patronize -- United Packinghouse Workers of America" and "On strike -- Please do not patronize! -- United Packinghouse Workers of America, local, C.I.O."; two onlookers lean against brick wall near picketers; sign on wall reads, "Armour and Company."
  • Date1946
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jan. 17, 1946; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPicketing ; Strikes and lockouts -- Meat industry ; Meat industry and trade
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (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: Fort Greene: Meat Market