About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0417
  • TitleFire victims' funeral
  • SummaryCrowd observing procession of four coffins being carried up steps into church. Caption: "Fire victims' funeral: Four white caskets are carried down [i.e. up] steps of St. John Chrysostom Church, 985 E. 167th St., Manhattan. They bear remains of Mrs. Anna Rodriguez and her three children....They are four of the seven women and children burned to death in firetrap tenement at 1101 Bedford Ave. last Wednesday."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 9 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jun. 24, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; International News Photos stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorInternational News Photos (New York, N.Y.)
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Funeral rites and ceremonies -- New York (State) -- New York ; Church buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceNew 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