About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0543
  • TitleCivic Center blaze
  • SummaryNight view of firemen climbing up fire escape of smoking, two-story brick building; storefront signs on ground floor. Caption: "Civic Center blaze: Firemen scurry up shell of abandoned building on Myrtle Ave. near Fulton St., where two-alarm fire broke out....The buildings have been condemned to make way for new Civic Center."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsnight photographyphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Aug. 30, 1954; photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorMurray, Jack
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York
  • 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: 1954. II