About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0555
  • TitleStill pouring water on the waterfront blaze
  • SummaryFiremen directing water from firetrucks at warehouse; small crowd of pedestrians at right; empty firetruck on wet street in left foreground. Caption: "Still pouring water on the waterfront blaze: In water-flooded streets firemen are shown here still pouring water into the blaze as they continue their battle against the stubborn seven-alarm fire that started soon after noon yesterday in the five-story brick warehouse of the New York Dock Company on the Brooklyn East River waterfront at Clark Street...."
  • Date1935
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 9 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from typed caption on verso. On verso: date typed: 4/21/35.
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Warehouses -- New York (State)
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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