About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0404
  • TitleFiremen in action
  • SummarySmoke billowing from ornate, nineteenth-century building, with seven or eight firemen and observers watching from field below; firemen in middle directing stream of water towards roof. Caption: "Firemen in action: Fire fighters send streams of water at blazing building at 1435 Atlantic Ave., formerly occupied by Orphan Asylum of City of Brooklyn."
  • Date1946
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Oct. 19, 1946; "Eagle Staff photo." Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Orphanages -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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: 1900-1950