About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0493
  • TitleBurned to the ground
  • SummaryMan, woman, and children standing amid embers of burned houses; two neighbors watch from yard of intact house in background. Caption: "Burned to the ground: Mill Basin families help search charred wreckage of two homes that burned to ground in early morning blaze. . . ."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jun. 27, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorMcNamara, C. E.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Disaster victims -- New York (State) -- New York ; Ruined buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Mill Basin (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: 1953