About This Item

  • Call NumberDEPT_0144
  • TitleLoeser's union leaders
  • SummaryFive men in suits standing before paneled wall and holding contracts. Caption: "LOESER'S UNION LEADERS explain terms of severance pay to 300 A. F. L. employes of Loeser's department store, now going into liquidation. A. F. L. contract signers for 'Employes Sale' are, from left to right, Roy T. Douglas, vice president of Local 32 K, Building Service Employes; John K. Lapham, business agent of Local 3, Electrical workers; George J. Troy, chariman of A. F. L. Organization Council; Howard Coughlin, business agent for Local 153, Office Employes, and Richard L. Boyle of International Brotherhood of Firemen, Oilers and Maintenance Men, Local 56.".
  • Date1952
  • 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: Feb. 9, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp.
  • CreatorMcNamara, C. E.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectDepartment stores -- New York (State) -- New York ; Department stores -- Employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Labor union members -- 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: Department Stores: Loeser & Co