Longshoremen loading cargo at the Port Authority Piers, Furman Street, Brooklyn, 1967 (Library of Congress)
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.
- Date
- 1967
- Kind
- photograph
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Rights
- The Library of Congress item record states: "No known restrictions on publication for NYWT&S staff photographs." Collection: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Call number: NYWTS - SUBJ/GEOG--Labor--Longshoremen [item] [P&P]. Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-124237 (b&w film copy neg.). The print is credited to the World Journal Tribune (Matthew Black), not to a World-Telegram staff photographer by name; this archive relies on the rights statement the Library prints on this item record.
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.
