About This Item

  • TitleMid Flame and Smoke
  • Call NumberTHEA_0011
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryLithograph - sheet music cover, "Mid Flame and Smoke, a descriptive song of the burning of the Brooklyn Theatre; words & music by J. W. Turner." The theater, located near the southeast corner of Washington Street and Johnson Street, was destroyed by fire on December 5, 1876 and 278 lives are known to have been lost. The image is not dated.
  • Date[1876?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printslithographsphotographic printssheet music
  • NoteInscribed on verso: "Brooklyn Eagle." Title from song title on recto.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Theaters -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.