About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0426
  • TitleSaves canaries
  • SummaryMan in bathrobe holding two birdcages with canaries; two other birdcages on table in foreground. Caption: "Saves canaries: A two-alarm fire today in a three-story frame dwelling at 1466 59th St. routed 15 persons into the freezing cold, among them Joseph Lucaderno, who managed to save five canaries...."
  • Date1952
  • 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: Feb. 13, 1952; "Eagle staff photo by Geller." Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorGeller, Jules
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Disaster victims -- New York (State) -- New York ; Birdcages
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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: 1952