About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0472
  • Title[Five volunteer firemen at 1940 annual parade]
  • SummaryFive elderly firemen with bouquets and horns standing together at annual parade in Brooklyn Heights. Caption: "Wearing their white fire helmets, insignia of their chief's office, and carrying their trumpets, the heads of four of the five exempt volunteer firemen's groups of the old City of Brooklyn and former Borough President Alfred E. Steers, president of the Kings County Volunteer Firemen's Association, marched in the 49th annual Washington's Birthday parade yesterday...."
  • Date1940
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 6 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date stamped: Feb. 23, 1940; "Eagle staff photo." Retouched.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectVolunteer fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Parades -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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: Firemen: Volunteer: Annual Parade 1940