About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0701
  • TitlePowder-keg pier
  • SummaryPolice observing workers in crowded scene in front of brick buildings and chainlink fences; one policeman on horseback. Caption: "Powder-keg pier: Police look on as crowd of longshoremen mills around gates of the Bull Line piers at the foot of 21st St. Work was hampered there this morning when Anthony Anastasio and his followers refused to let any dockworkers opposed to the International Longshoremen's Association enter the piers...."
  • 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. 7, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorGeller, Jules
  • 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
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Sunset Park (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