About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0922
  • TitleBack on the job
  • SummaryCaption: "Back on the job--Harbor returned to normal today with tugs huffing and puffing their way around again. Two push down the East River while, in foreground, another pulls away from Brooklyn pier with barge after delivering load of coal to waiting ship." Image includes partial views of freighter and covered pier in foreground and Manhattan waterfront and office buildings in background.
  • Date1946
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Feb. 14, 1946; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHarbors -- New York (State) -- New York ; Skyscrapers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Tugboats -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)East River (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: Strikes: Tugboats: Waterfront