| Keywords: nara:arcid=518791 u.s. national archives usnationalarchives lewis hine lewishine blackandwhite monochrome black and white Original Caption:  New York, New York - Longshoremen. This shows the prevailing method of transferring bananas from the end on the conveyor that carries them from the hold of the shop onto the dock. Then they are taken on the men's shoulders across the docks and into freight cars that are lightered across East River to freight trains going westward. The boat has just arrived from Mexico with Mexican Gold bananas. This is Pier No. 13, East River, - New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Line, July 1937  U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 69-RP-727A  Photographer:  Hine, Lewis   Subjects: The New Deal Tennessee Valley Authority Works Progress Administration Work Portraits The Great Depression   Persistent URL:  research.archives.gov/description/518791  Repository:  Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001.   For information about ordering reproductions of photographs held by the Still Picture Unit, visit: www.archives.gov/research/order/still-pictures.html  Reproductions may be ordered via an independent vendor. NARA maintains a list of vendors at www.archives.gov/research/order/vendors-photos-maps-dc.html   Access Restrictions: Unrestricted Use Restrictions: Unrestricted Original Caption:  New York, New York - Longshoremen. This shows the prevailing method of transferring bananas from the end on the conveyor that carries them from the hold of the shop onto the dock. Then they are taken on the men's shoulders across the docks and into freight cars that are lightered across East River to freight trains going westward. The boat has just arrived from Mexico with Mexican Gold bananas. This is Pier No. 13, East River, - New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Line, July 1937  U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 69-RP-727A  Photographer:  Hine, Lewis   Subjects: The New Deal Tennessee Valley Authority Works Progress Administration Work Portraits The Great Depression   Persistent URL:  research.archives.gov/description/518791  Repository:  Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001.   For information about ordering reproductions of photographs held by the Still Picture Unit, visit: www.archives.gov/research/order/still-pictures.html  Reproductions may be ordered via an independent vendor. NARA maintains a list of vendors at www.archives.gov/research/order/vendors-photos-maps-dc.html   Access Restrictions: Unrestricted Use Restrictions: Unrestricted  |