About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2038
  • TitleFiretrap
  • SummaryCaption: "Firetrap--Father Louis Meyer of Grace Episcopal Church [with young woman holding baby girl] thinks of terror of victims if fire sweeps the single narrow, wooden stairway of 184 S. 8th St. The building has no fire escapes."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: caption stamped: Jun[e] 22, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorFox, Dan [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectSlums ; Stairways [lctgm]
  • 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: Williamsburg: Housing: Interior