About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0526
  • TitleTenement fire in Williamsburg
  • SummaryBoy wrapped in blanket being carried by man in overcoat; three onlookers standing next to them. Caption: "Tenement fire in Williamsburg: ... 11-year-old Juan Bonella, injured by flames, is carried to ambulance by Wilbert Robinson, Cumberland Hospital attendant."
  • Date1954
  • 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: Apt. 3, 1954; photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorMcNamara, C. E.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHospitals -- Employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Disaster victims -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Williamsburg (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: 1954. I