About This Item


  • Call NumberWORK_0390
  • TitleCatching them on the run.
  • SummaryNewspaper clipping pasted to back of photograph from article, stamped: April 26, 1953. Clipping reads: ... Radio dispatcher Francis Free contacts engines on way home from fire, sends them on another job. saving fital time. Inscription in pencil reads: "Radio dispatcher answers call from Tele Bureau on Empire Boulevard, Francis Free." Fire Department Brooklyn's Fire Alarm Central Office."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white
  • Genreblack-and-white photographs
  • CreatorUnknown
  • SubjectFire departments
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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: Fire department: Fire Alarm Central Office