Brooklyn, stevedores unloading coffee bags

Brooklyn, stevedores unloading coffee bags

Photograph

Andreas Feininger

Maker
American, b. France, 1906–1999

Brooklyn, stevedores unloading coffee bags

May 7, 1946
Gelatin silver print
Image/Overall: 13 7/16 × 10 11/16 in. (34.1 × 27.1 cm)
Gift of the photographer
1978.0606.0012
Inscriptions stamped in blue ink on verso, TL: LIFE PHOTO \ BY \ ANDREAS FEININGER \ MAY 7 1946; inscribed in pencil on verso, TC: S/O(?) [crossed out]; inscribed in pencil on verso, C: 8 alt.(?) \ sec. [circled and crossed out] \ 44 [circled and crossed out]; stamped in black ink on verso, LC: PHOTOGRAPH BY \ ANDREAS FEININGER; stamped in black ink on verso, RC: ANDREAS FEININGER \ 365 WEST 20TH STREET \ NEW YORK 11, N.Y.; inscribed in pencil on verso, BC: 21 [half-circled]; signed in pencil on verso, BL: A. Feininger \ 1946; inscribed in black ink on verso, BLC: Used in Viking "New York"
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