About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0698
  • TitleDock free-for-all breaks up
  • SummaryTwo policemen on horseback and others on foot attempting to control moving crowd of workers; buildings, cargo, ship partially visible behind chain-link fence with barbed wire in background. Caption: "Dock free-for-all breaks up: Police disperse longshoremen following bloody battle in Erie Basin port area. Some 200 Anastasio partisans fighting with fists and stones were outnumbered and subdued by legions of cops on foot, horseback, in plainclothes and motorized components."
  • 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 by Lambert." Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorLambert, Al
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectInternational Longshoremen's Association ; Stevedores -- New York (State) -- New York ; Police -- New York (State) -- New York ; Riots -- 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