About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0557
  • Title5-alarm fire wrecks Brooklyn building
  • SummaryAerial view of smoking warehouses on waterfront below Brooklyn Heights; lower Manhattan skyline in background. Caption: "5-alarm fire wrecks Brooklyn building: Sweeping through a 5-story warehouse on the Brooklyn, N.Y. waterfront, this fire raged April 20 when 30 firemen were overcome by smoke and 12 others were injured...."
  • Date1935
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from typed caption on verso. On verso: date typed: 4-20-35; "Associated Press photo."
  • CreatorAssociated Press
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Harbors -- New York (State) -- New York ; Warehouses -- New York (State)
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)Manhattan (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: New York Dock Co. Port of N.Y. Authority