longshoremen

Lawrence Warehouse, foot of Webster Street. Looking West.

From "The Oakland Tribune" January 21, 1997

Oakland's historic waterfront warehouse by Annalee Allen

The Gibson...

Admiral Dewey at the dock in Oakland being unloaded

(D. Cooper, 2/1999) Flour sacks are being hoisted off the ship in a net attached to a boom. Longshoremen on the dock are moving a net-...

1919-1930

(On back of photo) "Admiral Dewey at dock"; (Stevedores loading the "Admiral Dewey")

(D. Cooper, 2/1999) The Admiral Dewey is being unloaded. Flour bags are being taken off in a net...

after 1909

Dock, City of Oakland, foot of Grove Streeet, loading a ship. Lawrence Warehouse Port of Oakland

(D. Cooper, 2/1999) This dock is also known as the Grove St. pier. Boxes of canned...

6-Jul-34

Tribune caption on the back, July 6, 1934-- "LOOK OUT- Rioters flee before onslaught of corps of officers, brandishing night sticks and shooting tear gas bombs from special guns. Strikers shown...

Jul-34

Photo shows the sidewalk in front of the hardware store where the two strikers were killed. On the sidewalk, written in chalk, "Police Murder. 2 ILA men killed- shot in the back," written several...

Jul-34

Photo shows the two men who were killed during the waterfront workers strike. The two men are laying on the sidewalk in front of a hardware store. The one man lying in the middle of the sidewalk...

4-Jul-34

Oakland Tribune clipping on the back, July 4, 1934-- "...mounted police escorting rioter to jail after charging mob obstruction truck movement." Photo shows a man wearing jeans, a short jacket,...

11-May-34

Oakland Tribune clipping on the back, May 11, 1934-- "These scenes, taken along the San Francisco Embarcadero, shows mobs running here and there, both in flight and in pursuit, as the 'fortunes of...

4-Jul-34

Oakland Tribune clipping on the back, July 4, 1934-- "Police with clubs and guns charge mob (upper right) to clear way for first trucks moved from San Francisco's piers in 56 days of...

6-Jul-34

The caption on the back, July 6, 1934-- "Warfare in which no quarter was given or taken raged in the strife-torn Embarcadero area as 6000 strikers clashed repeatedly with 700 police armed with...

July 13-18, 1934

Handwritten on the back, "Strike, San Francisco, Calif." Photo shows a large crowd walking down a sidewalk in San Francisco. In the background is the Ferry Building. The crowd is walking down a...

Jun-34

Photo shows a large crowd of both men and women standing in front of the Oakland Auditorium (Kaiser Convention Center next door to the Museum). They appear to be standing around in the parking...

Jun-34

Photo shows a crowd of people standing outside the Oakland Auditorium (Kaiser Convention Center next to the Museum). Some people are sitting on the steps and others are standing around. In the...

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