About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0516
  • TitleFighting borough blaze
  • SummaryNight view of firemen directing water into burning, two-story building. Caption: "Fighting borough blaze: Firemen pour water into a blazing, unoccupied wooden building in the Gerritsen Beach Veterans Housing Project. Nobody was hurt."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsnight photographyphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jan. 22, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; United Press Photo stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorUnited Press Associations
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Gerritsen Beach (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: 1954. I