About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0502
  • TitleGravesend fire under the 'L'
  • SummaryView from street of heavy smoke under elevated subway tracks; traffic light on curb in foreground. Caption: "Gravesend fire under the 'L': A short circuit in a cable feeding the third rail of the B.M.T. Culver Line, at McDonald Ave. and Ave. T, caused three sharp explosions yesterday and shot up leaping yellow flames and smoke show here. . . ."
  • 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: Dec. 27, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Subways -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Gravesend (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