About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0518
  • TitleTough borough blaze
  • SummaryFiremen climbing up ladder to roof of smoking warehouse; two firemen on firetruck in foreground directing water into smoke at left. Caption: "Tough boro blaze: Firemen pour water on warehouse at foot of 17th St. during fire which caused $250,000 damage to two warehouses and merchandise in them."
  • Date1954
  • 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. 6, 1954; "photo by Zirinsky & Jones." Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorZirinsky & Jones
  • 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.)Park Slope (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. I