About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0498
  • TitleA fireman died here
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (WORK 0497, WORK 0500, WORK 0499), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three views of fire at five-story brick building; 0497 and 0499 (identical images, 10 x 8 in.) show fireman aiming eight jets of water into fire; fire truck at left; other firemen standing amid rubble in foreground; 0498 (10 x 8 in.) shows blurrier image of burning building with silhouettes of firemen and bystanders in foreground; 0500 (8 x 10 in.) shows top of burning building seen from entrance to Manhattan Bridge; one bystander sitting on bridge railing. Caption on 0497: "A fireman died here: Firefighters play streams of water on burning building at 158 Sands St., gutted by five-alarm fire last night. Several firemen were overcome by smoke, one fatally."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description4 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso of 0497. On verso: date stamped: Oct. 14, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. 0497 retouched, including grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorGeller, Jules
  • 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.)Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)Manhattan Bridge (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