This photograph appears in the book, Men and Machines, A Story About Longshoring on the West Coast Waterfront, a photo essay by Otto Hagel published in 1963, shortly after the first Mechanization and Modernization Agreement was put into practice. It shows three longshoremen handling boxes of "Heavy Duty Brake Fluid" in the hold of a ship. The rows of boxes are fairly neat, indicating a job done right, or "a tight stow." In San Francisco, if a worker made the top tier of cargo perfect to hide a sloppily handled job, it was called putting a "Yankee face" on the cargo. The man in the center of the photograph is wearing the "usual rig" of traditional longshoremen: a white cap and "hickory" (blue and white striped) shirt.