About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0428
  • TitleWrong number
  • SummaryWoman at center of crowd scene being restrained or comforted by police and bystanders. Caption: "Wrong number: Police and neighbors lend assistance to Mrs. Mary Bermudez, center, who passed out on returning from shopping when she saw 229 Baltic St. ablaze. Mrs. Bermudez, who lives next door at 227, thought it was her house burning."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jan. 9, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Disaster victims -- New York (State) -- New York
  • 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