About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0416
  • TitleCharred house as wedding backdrop
  • SummaryBride accompanied by her father in tuxedo emerging from wooden building to well-wishers throwing rice. Caption: "Charred house as wedding backdrop: Andrew Kuriplach and his daughter Jean leave the charred remains of a house at 52 Clay St., scene of recent five-alarm fire at a Greenpoint warehouse. They are headed for St. Cyril Methodius R. C. Church, where Miss Kuriplach married Sgt. Robert Dolney...."".
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jul. 14, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; International News Photos stamp. Retouched; Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorInternational News Photos (New York, N.Y.)
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Ruined buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Weddings -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Greenpoint (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Fires: 1952