# Longshoremen loading cargo at the Port Authority Piers, Furman Street, Brooklyn, 1967 (Library of Congress)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-00649637-longshoremen-furman-street-1967/

World Journal Tribune photograph by Matthew Black in the NYWT&S collection of longshoremen loading cargo onto a ship at the Port Authority Piers on Furman Street, Brooklyn, 1967. A copy is stored here.

The Library of Congress titles this print "[Longshoremen loading cargo onto a ship at Port Authority Piers, Furman St., Brooklyn, New York]" and dates it 1967. The brackets mark a title devised by Library staff. It is a World Journal Tribune photograph by Matthew Black, from the New York World-Telegram and the Sun collection.

The record names no one and says nothing about crime or unions. It is filed as a Brooklyn waterfront scene, the later counterpart of the [1948 shapeup photograph](/items/loc-00649640-shapeup-pier-92-1948/).

## Sources

- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division: https://www.loc.gov/item/00649637/