Jack Doyle New York City Construction Photographs 1968-1987

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Jack Doyle New York City Construction Photographs, 1968-1987

Jack Doyle New York City Construction Photographs 1968-1987

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/photos_124/photos_124.html

Jack Doyle was President and Business Agent of Iron Workers Local 40. Doyle took the photographs in the collection between 1968 and 1987, during the course of his work on four major building projects in New York City: World Trade Center Tower 1, 7 World Trade Center, Rockefeller Medical Center, and the J.P. Morgan Building. Doyle kept a camera in his tool kit and made a photographic record of aspects of the work which interested him, including new technology, difficult procedures, and near accidents. Many of the photographs depict the beams and girders that would form the buildings and the cranes and derricks needed to lift them into place. Doyle also took pictures of his friends and co-workers on the jobs. The collection documents the building construction processes of the period and the daily lives of union members.

0.25 linear feet; in 1 manuscript box.

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives