LaborArts


Photograph

Item no. 22015
1963
New York
Occupation: Building and construction trades
Collection: Wagner Labor Archives

Photograph of construction workers eating lunch.  Workers lunch break at Warbasse houses, United Housing Foundation (UHF), Manhattan 1963.  The labor-sponsored UHF was responsible for a number of important housing developments in New York City, including the world-renowned Co-op City in the Bronx. 

Image from the Sam Reiss Collection, photographer Sam Reiss.

See this image in the Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives exhibit.

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