About This Item

  • Call NumberHOSP_0009
  • TitleLightning strikes hospital chimney
  • SummaryCaption: "Lightning strikes hospital chimney--A bolt of lightning, during the electric storm Wednesday afternoon, hit the chimney of Bay Ridge Hospital on Ovington Ave. ..."
  • Date1940
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 5 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date inscribed: June 29/40; stamped: "Home Talk;" on caption: "Photo by William Fawcett." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorFawcett, William
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectChimneys -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBay Ridge (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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: Hospitals: Bay Ridge